Transmission power control for beam failure recovery requests

This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/860,594, filed Jul. 8, 2022, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/107,426, filed Nov. 30, 2020, and now U.S. Pat. No. 11,425,774, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/101,283, filed Aug. 10, 2018, and now U.S. Pat. No. 10,887,939, which is a non-provisional of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/543,821, filed Aug. 10, 2017, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

In wireless communications, beam failure recovery may be performed upon detecting a beam failure. Difficulties may arise in determining a transmission power for a beam failure recovery preamble to provide a sufficient likelihood that it is received.

The following summary presents a simplified summary of certain features. The summary is not an extensive overview and is not intended to identify key or critical elements.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for communications associated with beam failure recovery. A base station may determine a received target power for a beam failure recovery preamble and increase the likelihood that the base station will receive the beam failure recovery preamble. The received target power for the beam failure recovery preamble may be different from a received target power for a random access preamble. The base station may transmit, to the wireless device, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters. The configuration parameters may comprise an indication of the received target power for the beam failure recovery preamble. The wireless device may detect a beam failure. After detecting a beam failure, the wireless device may transmit a beam failure recovery request preamble using a transmission power based on the indication of the received target power.

These and other features and advantages are described in greater detail below.

The accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, show examples of the disclosure. It is to be understood that the examples shown in the drawings and/or discussed herein are non-exclusive and that there are other examples of how the disclosure may be practiced.

Examples may enable operation of carrier aggregation and may be employed in the technical field of multicarrier communication systems. Examples may relate to beam failure recovery in a multicarrier communication system.

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project 5G 5th generation wireless systems 5GC 5G Core Network ACK Acknowledgement AMF Access and Mobility Management Function ASIC application-specific integrated circuit BFR beam failure recovery BPSK binary phase shift keying CA carrier aggregation CC component carrier CDMA code division multiple access CP cyclic prefix CPLD complex programmable logic devices CSI channel state information CSS common search space CU central unit DC dual connectivity DCI downlink control information DFTS-OFDM discrete fourier transform spreading OFDM DL downlink DU distributed unit eLTE enhanced LTE eMBB enhanced mobile broadband eNB evolved Node B EPC evolved packet core E-UTRAN evolved-universal terrestrial radio access network FDD frequency division multiplexing FPGA field programmable gate arrays Fs-C Fs-control plane Fs-U Fs-user plane gNB next generation node B HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request HDL hardware description languages ID identifier IE information element LTE long term evolution MAC media access control MCG master cell group MeNB master evolved node B MIB master information block MME mobility management entity mMTC massive machine type communications NACK Negative Acknowledgement NAS non-access stratum NG CP next generation control plane core NGC next generation core NG-C NG-control plane NG-U NG-user plane NR MAC new radio MAC NR PDCP new radio PDCP NR PHY new radio physical NR RLC new radio RLC NR RRC new radio RRC NR new radio NSSAI network slice selection assistance information OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing PCC primary component carrier PCell primary cell PDCCH physical downlink control channel PDCP packet data convergence protocol PDU packet data unit PHICH physical HARQ indicator channel PHY physical PLMN public land mobile network PSCell primary secondary cell pTAG primary timing advance group PUCCH physical uplink control channel PUSCH physical uplink shared channel QAM quadrature amplitude modulation QPSK quadrature phase shift keying RA random access RACH random access channel RAN radio access network RAP random access preamble RAR random access response RB resource blocks RBG resource block groups RLC radio link control RRC radio resource control RRM radio resource management RV redundancy version SCC secondary component carrier SCell secondary cell SCG secondary cell group SC-OFDM single carrier-OFDM SDU service data unit SeNB secondary evolved node B SFN system frame number S-GW serving gateway SIB system information block SC-OFDM single carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing SRB signaling radio bearer sTAG(s) secondary timing advance group(s) TA timing advance TAG timing advance group TAI tracking area identifier TAT time alignment timer TDD time division duplexing TDMA time division multiple access TTI transmission time interval TB transport block UE user equipment UL uplink UPGW user plane gateway URLLC ultra-reliable low-latency communications VHDL VHSIC hardware description language Xn-C Xn-control plane Xn-U Xn-user plane Xx-C Xx-control plane Xx-U Xx-user plane The following acronyms are used throughout the present disclosure, provided below for convenience although other acronyms may be introduced in the detailed description:

Examples may be implemented using various physical layer modulation and transmission mechanisms. Example transmission mechanisms may include, but are not limited to: CDMA, OFDM, TDMA, Wavelet technologies, and/or the like. Hybrid transmission mechanisms such as TDMA/CDMA, and OFDM/CDMA may also be employed. Various modulation schemes may be used for signal transmission in the physical layer. Examples of modulation schemes include, but are not limited to: phase, amplitude, code, a combination of these, and/or the like. An example radio transmission method may implement QAM using BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, and/or the like. Physical radio transmission may be enhanced by dynamically or semi-dynamically changing the modulation and coding scheme depending on transmission requirements and radio conditions.

1 FIG. 1 FIG. 1 FIG. 1 FIG. 1 FIG. 101 106 107 106 103 104 102 103 104 105 105 shows example sets of OFDM subcarriers. As shown in this example, arrow(s) in the diagram may depict a subcarrier in a multicarrier OFDM system. The OFDM system may use technology such as OFDM technology, DFTS-OFDM, SC-OFDM technology, or the like. For example, arrowshows a subcarrier transmitting information symbols.is shown as an example, and a typical multicarrier OFDM system may include more subcarriers in a carrier. For example, the number of subcarriers in a carrier may be in the range of 10 to 10,000 subcarriers.shows two guard bandsandin a transmission band. As shown in, guard bandis between subcarriersand subcarriers. The example set of subcarriers Aincludes subcarriersand subcarriers.also shows an example set of subcarriers B. As shown, there is no guard band between any two subcarriers in the example set of subcarriers B. Carriers in a multicarrier OFDM communication system may be contiguous carriers, non-contiguous carriers, or a combination of both contiguous and non-contiguous carriers.

2 FIG. 2 FIG. 2 FIG. 204 205 204 205 201 201 202 206 207 203 203 206 shows an example timing arrangement with transmission time and reception time for two carriers. A multicarrier OFDM communication system may include one or more carriers, for example, ranging from 1 to 10 carriers. Carrier Aand carrier Bmay have the same or different timing structures. Althoughshows two synchronized carriers, carrier Aand carrier Bmay or may not be synchronized with each other. Different radio frame structures may be supported for FDD and TDD duplex mechanisms.shows an example FDD frame timing. Downlink and uplink transmissions may be organized into radio frames. In this example, radio frame duration is 10 milliseconds (msec). Other frame durations, for example, in the range of 1 to 100 msec may also be supported. In this example, each 10 msec radio framemay be divided into ten equally sized subframes. Other subframe durations such as including 0.5 msec, 1 msec, 2 msec, and 5 msec may also be supported. Subframe(s) may consist of two or more slots (e.g., slotsand). For the example of FDD, 10 subframes may be available for downlink transmission and 10 subframes may be available for uplink transmissions in each 10 msec interval. Uplink and downlink transmissions may be separated in the frequency domain. A slot may be 7 or 14 OFDM symbols for the same subcarrier spacing of up to 60 kHz with normal CP. A slot may be 14 OFDM symbols for the same subcarrier spacing higher than 60 kHz with normal CP. A slot may include all downlink, all uplink, or a downlink part and an uplink part, and/or alike. Slot aggregation may be supported, e.g., data transmission may be scheduled to span one or multiple slots. For example, a mini-slot may start at an OFDM symbol in a subframe. A mini-slot may have a duration of one or more OFDM symbols. Slot(s) may include a plurality of OFDM symbols. The number of OFDM symbolsin a slotmay depend on the cyclic prefix length and subcarrier spacing.

3 FIG. 304 305 306 301 302 303 206 shows an example of OFDM radio resources, including a resource grid structure in timeand frequency. The quantity of downlink subcarriers or RBs may depend, at least in part, on the downlink transmission bandwidthconfigured in the cell. The smallest radio resource unit may be called a resource element (e.g.,). Resource elements may be grouped into resource blocks (e.g.,). Resource blocks may be grouped into larger radio resources called Resource Block Groups (RBG) (e.g.,). The transmitted signal in slotmay be described by one or several resource grids of a plurality of subcarriers and a plurality of OFDM symbols. Resource blocks may be used to describe the mapping of certain physical channels to resource elements. Other pre-defined groupings of physical resource elements may be implemented in the system depending on the radio technology. For example, 24 subcarriers may be grouped as a radio block for a duration of 5 msec. A resource block may correspond to one slot in the time domain and 180 kHz in the frequency domain (for 15 kHz subcarrier bandwidth and 12 subcarriers).

Multiple numerologies may be supported. A numerology may be derived by scaling a basic subcarrier spacing by an integer N. Scalable numerology may allow at least from 15 kHz to 480 kHz subcarrier spacing. The numerology with 15 kHz and scaled numerology with different subcarrier spacing with the same CP overhead may align at a symbol boundary every 1 msec in a NR carrier.

4 FIG. 1 FIG. 2 FIG. 3 FIG. 5 FIG. 401 406 400 401 406 401 402 403 405 404 403 406 407 408 410 409 408 402 401 407 406 411 411 407 406 402 401 401 406 411 402 407 411 400 400 shows hardware elements of a base stationand a wireless device. A communication networkmay include at least one base stationand at least one wireless device. The base stationmay include at least one communication interface, one or more processors, and at least one set of program code instructionsstored in non-transitory memoryand executable by the one or more processors. The wireless devicemay include at least one communication interface, one or more processors, and at least one set of program code instructionsstored in non-transitory memoryand executable by the one or more processors. A communication interfacein the base stationmay be configured to engage in communication with a communication interfacein the wireless device, such as via a communication path that includes at least one wireless link. The wireless linkmay be a bi-directional link. The communication interfacein the wireless devicemay also be configured to engage in communication with the communication interfacein the base station. The base stationand the wireless devicemay be configured to send and receive data over the wireless linkusing multiple frequency carriers. Base stations, wireless devices, and other communication devices may include structure and operations of transceiver(s). A transceiver is a device that includes both a transmitter and receiver. Transceivers may be employed in devices such as wireless devices, base stations, relay nodes, and/or the like. Examples for radio technology implemented in the communication interfaces,and the wireless linkare shown in,,,, and associated text. The communication networkmay comprise any number and/or type of devices, such as, for example, computing devices, wireless devices, mobile devices, handsets, tablets, laptops, internet of things (IoT) devices, hotspots, cellular repeaters, computing devices, and/or, more generally, user equipment (e.g., UE). Although one or more of the above types of devices may be referenced herein (e.g., UE, wireless device, computing device, etc.), it should be understood that any device herein may comprise any one or more of the above types of devices or similar devices. The communication network, and any other network referenced herein, may comprise an LTE network, a 5G network, or any other network for wireless communications. Apparatuses, systems, and/or methods described herein may generally be described as implemented on one or more devices (e.g., wireless device, base station, eNB, gNB, computing device, etc.), in one or more networks, but it will be understood that one or more features and steps may be implemented on any device and/or in any network. As used throughout, the term “base station” may comprise one or more of: a base station, a node, a Node B, a gNB, an eNB, an ng-eNB, a relay node (e.g., an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node), a donor node (e.g., a donor eNB, a donor gNB, etc.), an access point (e.g., a WiFi access point), a computing device, a device capable of wirelessly communicating, or any other device capable of sending and/or receiving signals. As used throughout, the term “wireless device” may comprise one or more of: a UE, a handset, a mobile device, a computing device, a node, a device capable of wirelessly communicating, or any other device capable of sending and/or receiving signals. Any reference to one or more of these terms/devices also considers use of any other term/device mentioned above.

400 401 406 401 The communications networkmay comprise Radio Access Network (RAN) architecture. The RAN architecture may comprise one or more RAN nodes that may be a next generation Node B (gNB) (e.g.,) providing New Radio (NR) user plane and control plane protocol terminations towards a first wireless device (e.g.). A RAN node may be a next generation evolved Node B (ng-eNB), providing Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) user plane and control plane protocol terminations towards a second wireless device. The first wireless device may communicate with a gNB over a Uu interface. The second wireless device may communicate with a ng-eNB over a Uu interface. Base stationmay comprise one or more of a gNB, ng-eNB, and/or the like.

A gNB or an ng-eNB may host functions such as: radio resource management and scheduling, IP header compression, encryption and integrity protection of data, selection of Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) at User Equipment (UE) attachment, routing of user plane and control plane data, connection setup and release, scheduling and transmission of paging messages (originated from the AMF), scheduling and transmission of system broadcast information (originated from the AMF or Operation and Maintenance (O&M)), measurement and measurement reporting configuration, transport level packet marking in the uplink, session management, support of network slicing, Quality of Service (QoS) flow management and mapping to data radio bearers, support of wireless devices in RRC_INACTIVE state, distribution function for Non-Access Stratum (NAS) messages, RAN sharing, and dual connectivity or tight interworking between NR and E-UTRA.

One or more gNBs and/or one or more ng-eNBs may be interconnected with each other by means of Xn interface. A gNB or an ng-eNB may be connected by means of NG interfaces to 5G Core Network (5GC). 5GC may comprise one or more AMF/User Plane Function (UPF) functions. A gNB or an ng-eNB may be connected to a UPF by means of an NG-User plane (NG-U) interface. The NG-U interface may provide delivery (e.g., non-guaranteed delivery) of user plane Protocol Data Units (PDUs) between a RAN node and the UPF. A gNB or an ng-eNB may be connected to an AMF by means of an NG-Control plane (e.g., NG-C) interface. The NG-C interface may provide functions such as NG interface management, UE context management, UE mobility management, transport of NAS messages, paging, PDU session management, configuration transfer or warning message transmission.

A UPF may host functions such as anchor point for intra-/inter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) mobility (if applicable), external PDU session point of interconnect to data network, packet routing and forwarding, packet inspection and user plane part of policy rule enforcement, traffic usage reporting, uplink classifier to support routing traffic flows to a data network, branching point to support multi-homed PDU session, QoS handling for user plane, e.g. packet filtering, gating, Uplink (UL)/Downlink (DL) rate enforcement, uplink traffic verification (e.g. Service Data Flow (SDF) to QoS flow mapping), downlink packet buffering and/or downlink data notification triggering.

rd An AMF may host functions such as NAS signaling termination, NAS signaling security, Access Stratum (AS) security control, inter Core Network (CN) node signaling for mobility between 3Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access networks, idle mode UE reachability (e.g., control and execution of paging retransmission), registration area management, support of intra-system and inter-system mobility, access authentication, access authorization including check of roaming rights, mobility management control (subscription and policies), support of network slicing and/or Session Management Function (SMF) selection.

An interface may be a hardware interface, a firmware interface, a software interface, and/or a combination thereof. The hardware interface may include connectors, wires, electronic devices such as drivers, amplifiers, and/or the like. A software interface may include code stored in a memory device to implement protocol(s), protocol layers, communication drivers, device drivers, combinations thereof, and/or the like. A firmware interface may include a combination of embedded hardware and code stored in and/or in communication with a memory device to implement connections, electronic device operations, protocol(s), protocol layers, communication drivers, device drivers, hardware operations, combinations thereof, and/or the like.

The term configured may relate to the capacity of a device whether the device is in an operational or a non-operational state. Configured may also refer to specific settings in a device that effect the operational characteristics of the device whether the device is in an operational or a non-operational state. In other words, the hardware, software, firmware, registers, memory values, and/or the like may be “configured” within a device, whether the device is in an operational or a nonoperational state, to provide the device with specific characteristics. Terms such as “a control message to cause in a device” may mean that a control message has parameters that may be used to configure specific characteristics in the device, whether the device is in an operational or a non-operational state.

10 FIG.A 10 FIG.B A 5G network may include a multitude of base stations, providing a user plane NR PDCP/NR RLC/NR MAC/NR PHY and control plane (NR RRC) protocol terminations towards the wireless device. The base station(s) may be interconnected with other base station(s) (e.g., employing an Xn interface). The base stations may also be connected employing, for example, an NG interface to an NGC.andshow examples for interfaces between a 5G core network (e.g., NGC) and base stations (e.g., gNB and eLTE eNB). For example, the base stations may be interconnected to the NGC control plane (e.g., NG CP) employing the NG-C interface and to the NGC user plane (e.g., UPGW) employing the NG-U interface. The NG interface may support a many-to-many relation between 5G core networks and base stations.

A base station may include many sectors, for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 sectors. A base station may include many cells, for example, ranging from 1 to 50 cells or more. A cell may be categorized, for example, as a primary cell or secondary cell. At RRC connection establishment/re-establishment/handover, one serving cell may provide the NAS (non-access stratum) mobility information (e.g., TAI), and at RRC connection re-establishment/handover, one serving cell may provide the security input. This cell may be referred to as the Primary Cell (PCell). In the downlink, the carrier corresponding to the PCell may be the Downlink Primary Component Carrier (DL PCC); in the uplink, the carrier corresponding to the PCell may be the Uplink Primary Component Carrier (UL PCC). Depending on wireless device capabilities, Secondary Cells (SCells) may be configured to form together with the PCell a set of serving cells. In the downlink, the carrier corresponding to an SCell may be a Downlink Secondary Component Carrier (DL SCC); in the uplink, the carrier corresponding to an SCell may be an Uplink Secondary Component Carrier (UL SCC). An SCell may or may not have an uplink carrier.

A cell, comprising a downlink carrier and optionally an uplink carrier, may be assigned a physical cell ID and a cell index. A carrier (downlink or uplink) may belong to only one cell. The cell ID or cell index may also identify the downlink carrier or uplink carrier of the cell (depending on the context in which it is used). The cell ID may be equally referred to a carrier ID, and cell index may be referred to carrier index. In implementation, the physical cell ID or cell index may be assigned to a cell. A cell ID may be determined using a synchronization signal transmitted on a downlink carrier. A cell index may be determined using RRC messages. For example, reference to a first physical cell ID for a first downlink carrier may indicate that the first physical cell ID is for a cell comprising the first downlink carrier. The same concept may apply to, for example, carrier activation. Reference to a first carrier that is activated may indicate that the cell comprising the first carrier is activated.

A device may be configured to operate as needed by freely combining any of the examples. The disclosed mechanisms may be performed if certain criteria are met, for example, in a wireless device, a base station, a radio environment, a network, a combination of the above, and/or the like. Example criteria may be based, at least in part, on for example, traffic load, initial system set up, packet sizes, traffic characteristics, a combination of the above, and/or the like. One or more criteria may be satisfied. It may be possible to implement examples that selectively implement disclosed protocols.

A base station may communicate with a variety of wireless devices. Wireless devices may support multiple technologies, and/or multiple releases of the same technology. Wireless devices may have some specific capability(ies) depending on its wireless device category and/or capability(ies). A base station may comprise multiple sectors. Reference to a base station communicating with a plurality of wireless devices may indicate that a base station may communicate with a subset of the total wireless devices in a coverage area. A plurality of wireless devices of a given LTE or 5G release, with a given capability and in a given sector of the base station, may be used. The plurality of wireless devices may refer to a selected plurality of wireless devices, and/or a subset of total wireless devices in a coverage area which perform according to disclosed methods, and/or the like. There may be a plurality of wireless devices in a coverage area that may not comply with the disclosed methods, for example, because those wireless devices perform based on older releases of LTE or 5G technology.

A base station may transmit (e.g., to a wireless device) one or more messages (e.g. RRC messages) that may comprise a plurality of configuration parameters for one or more cells. One or more cells may comprise at least one primary cell and at least one secondary cell. An RRC message may be broadcasted or unicasted to the wireless device. Configuration parameters may comprise common parameters and dedicated parameters.

Services and/or functions of an RRC sublayer may comprise at least one of: broadcast of system information related to AS and NAS; paging initiated by 5GC and/or NG-RAN; establishment, maintenance, and/or release of an RRC connection between a wireless device and NG-RAN, which may comprise at least one of addition, modification and release of carrier aggregation; or addition, modification, and/or release of dual connectivity in NR or between E-UTRA and NR. Services and/or functions of an RRC sublayer may further comprise at least one of security functions comprising key management; establishment, configuration, maintenance, and/or release of Signaling Radio Bearers (SRBs) and/or Data Radio Bearers (DRBs); mobility functions which may comprise at least one of a handover (e.g. intra NR mobility or inter-RAT mobility) and a context transfer; or a wireless device cell selection and reselection and control of cell selection and reselection. Services and/or functions of an RRC sublayer may further comprise at least one of QoS management functions; a wireless device measurement configuration/reporting; detection of and/or recovery from radio link failure; or NAS message transfer to/from a core network entity (e.g. AMF, Mobility Management Entity (MME)) from/to the wireless device.

An RRC sublayer may support an RRC_Idle state, an RRC_Inactive state and/or an RRC_Connected state for a wireless device. In an RRC_Idle state, a wireless device may perform at least one of: Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection; receiving broadcasted system information; cell selection/re-selection; monitoring/receiving a paging for mobile terminated data initiated by 5GC; paging for mobile terminated data area managed by 5GC; or DRX for CN paging configured via NAS. In an RRC_Inactive state, a wireless device may perform at least one of: receiving broadcasted system information; cell selection/re-selection; monitoring/receiving a RAN/CN paging initiated by NG-RAN/5GC; RAN-based notification area (RNA) managed by NG-RAN; or DRX for RAN/CN paging configured by NG-RAN/NAS. In an RRC_Idle state of a wireless device, a base station (e.g. NG-RAN) may keep a 5GC-NG-RAN connection (both C/U-planes) for the wireless device; and/or store a UE AS context for the wireless device. In an RRC_Connected state of a wireless device, a base station (e.g. NG-RAN) may perform at least one of: establishment of 5GC-NG-RAN connection (both C/U-planes) for the wireless device; storing a UE AS context for the wireless device; transmit/receive of unicast data to/from the wireless device; or network-controlled mobility based on measurement results received from the wireless device. In an RRC_Connected state of a wireless device, an NG-RAN may know a cell that the wireless device belongs to.

System information (SI) may be divided into minimum SI and other SI. The minimum SI may be periodically broadcast. The minimum SI may comprise basic information required for initial access and information for acquiring any other SI broadcast periodically or provisioned on-demand, i.e. scheduling information. The other SI may either be broadcast, or be provisioned in a dedicated manner, either triggered by a network or upon request from a wireless device. A minimum SI may be transmitted via two different downlink channels using different messages (e.g. MasterInformationBlock and SystemInformationBlockType1). The other SI may be transmitted via SystemInformationBlockType2. For a wireless device in an RRC_Connected state, dedicated RRC signaling may be employed for the request and delivery of the other SI. For the wireless device in the RRC_Idle state and/or the RRC_Inactive state, the request may trigger a random-access procedure.

A wireless device may send its radio access capability information which may be static. A base station may request what capabilities for a wireless device to report based on band information. If allowed by a network, a temporary capability restriction request may be sent by the wireless device to signal the limited availability of some capabilities (e.g. due to hardware sharing, interference or overheating) to the base station. The base station may confirm or reject the request. The temporary capability restriction may be transparent to 5GC (e.g., static capabilities may be stored in 5GC).

If CA is configured, a wireless device may have an RRC connection with a network. At RRC connection establishment/re-establishment/handover procedure, one serving cell may provide NAS mobility information, and at RRC connection re-establishment/handover, one serving cell may provide a security input. This cell may be referred to as the PCell. Depending on the capabilities of the wireless device, SCells may be configured to form together with the PCell a set of serving cells. The configured set of serving cells for the wireless device may comprise one PCell and one or more SCells.

The reconfiguration, addition and removal of SCells may be performed by RRC. At intra-NR handover, RRC may also add, remove, or reconfigure SCells for usage with the target PCell. If adding a new SCell, dedicated RRC signaling may be employed to send all required system information of the SCell. In connected mode, wireless devices may not need to acquire broadcasted system information directly from the SCells.

An RRC connection reconfiguration procedure may be used to modify an RRC connection, (e.g. to establish, modify and/or release RBs, to perform handover, to setup, modify, and/or release measurements, to add, modify, and/or release SCells and cell groups). As part of the RRC connection reconfiguration procedure, NAS dedicated information may be transferred from the network to the wireless device. The RRCConnectionReconfiguration message may be a command to modify an RRC connection. It may convey information for measurement configuration, mobility control, radio resource configuration (e.g. RBs, MAC main configuration and physical channel configuration) comprising any associated dedicated NAS information and security configuration. If the received RRC Connection Reconfiguration message includes the sCellToReleaseList, the wireless device may perform an SCell release. If the received RRC Connection Reconfiguration message includes the sCellToAddModList, the wireless device may perform SCell additions or modification.

An RRC connection establishment (or reestablishment, resume) procedure may be used to establish (or reestablish, resume) an RRC connection. An RRC connection establishment procedure may comprise SRB1 establishment. The RRC connection establishment procedure may be used to transfer the initial NAS dedicated information message from a wireless device to E-UTRAN. The RRCConnectionReestablishment message may be used to re-establish SRB1.

A measurement report procedure may be to transfer measurement results from a wireless device to NG-RAN. The wireless device may initiate a measurement report procedure, e.g., after successful security activation. A measurement report message may be employed to transmit measurement results.

5 FIG.A 5 FIG.B 5 FIG.C 5 FIG.D 5 FIG.A 501 501 502 502 503 504 504 505 506 506 507 507 ,,, andshow examples of architecture for uplink and downlink signal transmission.shows an example for an uplink physical channel. The baseband signal representing the physical uplink shared channel may be processed according to the following processes, which may be performed by structures described below. These structures and corresponding functions are shown as examples, however, it is anticipated that other structures and/or functions may be implemented in various examples. The structures and corresponding functions may comprise, e.g., one or more scrambling devicesA andB configured to perform scrambling of coded bits in each of the codewords to be transmitted on a physical channel; one or more modulation mappersA andB configured to perform modulation of scrambled bits to generate complex-valued symbols; a layer mapperconfigured to perform mapping of the complex-valued modulation symbols onto one or several transmission layers; one or more transform precodersA andB to generate complex-valued symbols; a precoding deviceconfigured to perform precoding of the complex-valued symbols; one or more resource element mappersA andB configured to perform mapping of precoded complex-valued symbols to resource elements; one or more signal generatorsA andB configured to perform the generation of a complex-valued time-domain DFTS-OFDM/SC-FDMA signal for each antenna port; and/or the like.

5 FIG.B 1 1 1 510 511 511 511 511 512 512 513 513 shows an example for performing modulation and up-conversion to the carrier frequency of the complex-valued DFTS-OFDM/SC-FDMA baseband signal, e.g., for each antenna port and/or for the complex-valued physical random access channel (PRACH) baseband signal. For example, the baseband signal, represented as s(t), may be split, by a signal splitter, into real and imaginary components, Re{s(t)} and Im{s(t)}, respectively. The real component may be modulated by a modulatorA, and the imaginary component may be modulated by a modulatorB. The output signal of the modulatorA and the output signal of the modulatorB may be mixed by a mixer. The output signal of the mixermay be input to a filtering device, and filtering may be employed by the filtering deviceprior to transmission.

5 FIG.C 531 531 532 532 533 535 536 536 537 537 shows an example structure for downlink transmissions. The baseband signal representing a downlink physical channel may be processed by the following processes, which may be performed by structures described below. These structures and corresponding functions are shown as examples, however, it is anticipated that other structures and/or functions may be implemented in various examples. The structures and corresponding functions may comprise, e.g., one or more scrambling devicesA andB configured to perform scrambling of coded bits in each of the codewords to be transmitted on a physical channel; one or more modulation mappersA andB configured to perform modulation of scrambled bits to generate complex-valued modulation symbols; a layer mapperconfigured to perform mapping of the complex-valued modulation symbols onto one or several transmission layers; a precoding deviceconfigured to perform precoding of the complex-valued modulation symbols on each layer for transmission on the antenna ports; one or more resource element mappersA andB configured to perform mapping of complex-valued modulation symbols for each antenna port to resource elements; one or more OFDM signal generatorsA andB configured to perform the generation of complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal for each antenna port; and/or the like.

5 FIG.D 1 1 1 (p) (p) (p) 520 521 521 521 521 522 522 523 523 shows an example structure for modulation and up-conversion to the carrier frequency of the complex-valued OFDM baseband signal for each antenna port. For example, the baseband signal, represented as s(t), may be split, by a signal splitter, into real and imaginary components, Re{s(t)} and Im{s(t)}, respectively. The real component may be modulated by a modulatorA, and the imaginary component may be modulated by a modulatorB. The output signal of the modulatorA and the output signal of the modulatorB may be mixed by a mixer. The output signal of the mixermay be input to a filtering device, and filtering may be employed by the filtering deviceprior to transmission.

6 FIG. 7 FIG. 600 610 620 600 610 620 600 610 620 600 601 602 603 604 605 611 612 613 614 621 622 623 624 600 606 607 610 615 620 625 600 610 620 608 609 600 608 605 610 612 600 609 605 620 622 andshow examples for protocol structures with CA and multi-connectivity. NR may support multi-connectivity operation, whereby a multiple receiver/transmitter (RX/TX) wireless device in RRC_CONNECTED may be configured to utilize radio resources provided by multiple schedulers located in multiple gNBs connected via a non-ideal or ideal backhaul over the Xn interface. gNBs involved in multi-connectivity for a certain wireless device may assume two different roles: a gNB may either act as a master gNB (e.g.,) or as a secondary gNB (e.g.,or). In multi-connectivity, a wireless device may be connected to one master gNB (e.g.,) and one or more secondary gNBs (e.g.,and/or). Any one or more of the Master gNBand/or the secondary gNBsandmay be a Next Generation (NG) NodeB. The master gNBmay comprise protocol layers NR MAC, NR RLCand, and NR PDCPand. The secondary gNB may comprise protocol layers NR MAC, NR RLCand, and NR PDCP. The secondary gNB may comprise protocol layers NR MAC, NR RLCand, and NR PDCP. The master gNBmay communicate via an interfaceand/or via an interface, the secondary gNBmay communicate via an interface, and the secondary gNBmay communicate via an interface. The master gNBmay also communicate with the secondary gNBand the secondary gNBvia interfacesand, respectively, which may include Xn interfaces. For example, the master gNBmay communicate via the interface, at layer NR PDCP, and with the secondary gNBat layer NR RLC. The master gNBmay communicate via the interface, at layer NR PDCP, and with the secondary gNBat layer NR RLC.

7 FIG. shows an example structure for the UE side MAC entities, e.g., if a Master Cell Group (MCG) and a Secondary Cell Group (SCG) are configured. Media Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) reception may be included but is not shown in this figure for simplicity.

6 FIG. In multi-connectivity, the radio protocol architecture that a particular bearer uses may depend on how the bearer is set up. As an example, three alternatives may exist, an MCG bearer, an SCG bearer, and a split bearer, such as shown in. NR RRC may be located in a master gNB and SRBs may be configured as a MCG bearer type and may use the radio resources of the master gNB. Multi-connectivity may have at least one bearer configured to use radio resources provided by the secondary gNB. Multi-connectivity may or may not be configured or implemented.

For multi-connectivity, the wireless device may be configured with multiple NR MAC entities: e.g., one NR MAC entity for a master gNB, and other NR MAC entities for secondary gNBs. In multi-connectivity, the configured set of serving cells for a wireless device may comprise two subsets: e.g., the Master Cell Group (MCG) including the serving cells of the master gNB, and the Secondary Cell Groups (SCGs) including the serving cells of the secondary gNBs.

At least one cell in a SCG may have a configured UL component carrier (CC) and one of the UL CCs, e.g., named PSCell (or PCell of SCG, or sometimes called PCell), may be configured with PUCCH resources. If the SCG is configured, there may be at least one SCG bearer or one split bearer. If a physical layer problem or a random access problem on a PSCell occurs or is detected, if the maximum number of NR RLC retransmissions has been reached associated with the SCG, or if an access problem on a PSCell during a SCG addition or a SCG change occurs or is detected, then an RRC connection re-establishment procedure may not be triggered, UL transmissions towards cells of the SCG may be stopped, a master gNB may be informed by the wireless device of a SCG failure type, and for a split bearer the DL data transfer over the master gNB may be maintained. The NR RLC Acknowledge Mode (AM) bearer may be configured for the split bearer. Like the PCell, a PSCell may not be de-activated. The PSCell may be changed with an SCG change (e.g., with a security key change and a RACH procedure). A direct bearer type may change between a split bearer and an SCG bearer, or a simultaneous configuration of an SCG and a split bearer may or may not be supported.

A master gNB and secondary gNBs may interact for multi-connectivity. The master gNB may maintain the RRM measurement configuration of the wireless device, and the master gNB may, (e.g., based on received measurement reports, and/or based on traffic conditions and/or bearer types), decide to ask a secondary gNB to provide additional resources (e.g., serving cells) for a wireless device. If a request from the master gNB is received, a secondary gNB may create a container that may result in the configuration of additional serving cells for the wireless device (or the secondary gNB decide that it has no resource available to do so). For wireless device capability coordination, the master gNB may provide some or all of the Active Set (AS) configuration and the wireless device capabilities to the secondary gNB. The master gNB and the secondary gNB may exchange information about a wireless device configuration, such as by employing NR RRC containers (e.g., inter-node messages) carried in Xn messages. The secondary gNB may initiate a reconfiguration of its existing serving cells (e.g., PUCCH towards the secondary gNB). The secondary gNB may decide which cell is the PSCell within the SCG. The master gNB may or may not change the content of the NR RRC configuration provided by the secondary gNB. In an SCG addition and an SCG SCell addition, the master gNB may provide the latest measurement results for the SCG cell(s). Both a master gNB and a secondary gNBs may know the system frame number (SFN) and subframe offset of each other by operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) (e.g., for the purpose of discontinuous reception (DRX) alignment and identification of a measurement gap). If adding a new SCG SCell, dedicated NR RRC signaling may be used for sending required system information of the cell for CA, except, e.g., for the SFN acquired from an MIB of the PSCell of an SCG.

7 FIG. 700 718 719 700 701 702 703 704 705 719 706 707 709 710 708 719 718 711 712 713 714 715 716 shows an example of dual-connectivity (DC) for two MAC entities at a wireless device side. A first MAC entity may comprise a lower layer of an MCG, an upper layer of an MCG, and one or more intermediate layers of an MCG. The lower layer of the MCGmay comprise, e.g., a paging channel (PCH), a broadcast channel (BCH), a downlink shared channel (DL-SCH), an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), and a random access channel (RACH). The one or more intermediate layers of the MCGmay comprise, e.g., one or more hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, one or more random access control processes, multiplexing and/or de-multiplexing processes, logical channel prioritization on the uplink processes, and a control processesproviding control for the above processes in the one or more intermediate layers of the MCG. The upper layer of the MCGmay comprise, e.g., a paging control channel (PCCH), a broadcast control channel (BCCH), a common control channel (CCCH), a dedicated control channel (DCCH), a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH), and a MAC control.

720 738 739 720 722 723 724 725 739 726 727 729 730 728 739 738 732 714 735 736 A second MAC entity may comprise a lower layer of an SCG, an upper layer of an SCG, and one or more intermediate layers of an SCG. The lower layer of the SCGmay comprise, e.g., a BCH, a DL-SCH, an UL-SCH, and a RACH. The one or more intermediate layers of the SCGmay comprise, e.g., one or more HARQ processes, one or more random access control processes, multiplexing and/or de-multiplexing processes, logical channel prioritization on the uplink processes, and a control processesproviding control for the above processes in the one or more intermediate layers of the SCG. The upper layer of the SCGmay comprise, e.g., a BCCH, a DCCH, a DTCH, and a MAC control.

Serving cells may be grouped in a TA group (TAG). Serving cells in one TAG may use the same timing reference. For a given TAG, a wireless device may use at least one downlink carrier as a timing reference. For a given TAG, a wireless device may synchronize uplink subframe and frame transmission timing of uplink carriers belonging to the same TAG. Serving cells having an uplink to which the same TA applies may correspond to serving cells hosted by the same receiver. A wireless device supporting multiple TAs may support two or more TA groups. One TA group may include the PCell and may be called a primary TAG (pTAG). In a multiple TAG configuration, at least one TA group may not include the PCell and may be called a secondary TAG (sTAG). Carriers within the same TA group may use the same TA value and/or the same timing reference. If DC is configured, cells belonging to a cell group (e.g., MCG or SCG) may be grouped into multiple TAGs including a pTAG and one or more sTAGs.

8 FIG. shows example TAG configurations. In Example 1, a pTAG comprises a PCell, and an sTAG comprises an SCell1. In Example 2, a pTAG comprises a PCell and an SCell1, and an sTAG comprises an SCell2 and an SCell3. In Example 3, a pTAG comprises a PCell and an SCell1, and an sTAG1 comprises an SCell2 and an SCell3, and an sTAG2 comprises a SCell4. Up to four TAGs may be supported in a cell group (MCG or SCG), and other example TAG configurations may also be provided. In various examples, structures and operations are described for use with a pTAG and an sTAG. Some of the examples may be used for configurations with multiple sTAGs.

An eNB may initiate an RA procedure, via a PDCCH order, for an activated SCell. The PDCCH order may be sent on a scheduling cell of this SCell. If cross carrier scheduling is configured for a cell, the scheduling cell may be different than the cell that is employed for preamble transmission, and the PDCCH order may include an SCell index. At least a non-contention based RA procedure may be supported for SCell(s) assigned to sTAG(s).

9 FIG. 900 900 901 900 901 902 902 901 902 1 903 903 902 903 903 903 904 904 902 shows an example of random access processes, and a corresponding message flow, in a secondary TAG. A base station, such as an eNB, may transmit an activation commandto a wireless device, such as a UE. The activation commandmay be transmitted to activate an SCell. The base station may also transmit a PDCCH orderto the wireless device, which may be transmitted, e.g., after the activation command. The wireless device may begin to perform a RACH process for the SCell, which may be initiated, e.g., after receiving the PDCCH order. A wireless device may transmit to the base station (e.g., as part of a RACH process) a preamble(e.g., Msg1), such as a random access preamble (RAP). The preamblemay be transmitted in response to the PDCCH order. The wireless device may transmit the preamblevia an SCell belonging to an sTAG. Preamble transmission for SCells may be controlled by a network using PDCCH formatA. The base station may send a random access response (RAR)(e.g., Msg2 message) to the wireless device. The RARmay be in response to the preambletransmission via the SCell. The RARmay be addressed to a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) in a PCell common search space (CSS). If the wireless device receives the RAR, the RACH process may conclude. The RACH process may conclude, e.g., after or in response to the wireless device receiving the RARfrom the base station. After the RACH process, the wireless device may transmit an uplink transmission. The uplink transmissionmay comprise uplink packets transmitted via the same SCell used for the preambletransmission.

9 FIG. TA TA Initial timing alignment for communications between the wireless device and the base station may be performed through a random access procedure, such as described above regarding. The random access procedure may involve a wireless device, such as a UE, transmitting a random access preamble and a base station, such as an eNB, responding with an initial TA command N(amount of timing advance) within a random access response window. The start of the random access preamble may be aligned with the start of a corresponding uplink subframe at the wireless device assuming N=0. The eNB may estimate the uplink timing from the random access preamble transmitted by the wireless device. The TA command may be derived by the eNB based on the estimation of the difference between the desired UL timing and the actual UL timing. The wireless device may determine the initial uplink transmission timing relative to the corresponding downlink of the sTAG on which the preamble is transmitted.

The mapping of a serving cell to a TAG may be configured by a serving eNB with RRC signaling. The mechanism for TAG configuration and reconfiguration may be based on RRC signaling. If an eNB performs an SCell addition configuration, the related TAG configuration may be configured for the SCell. An eNB may modify the TAG configuration of an SCell by removing (e.g., releasing) the SCell and adding (e.g., configuring) a new SCell (with the same physical cell ID and frequency) with an updated TAG ID. The new SCell with the updated TAG ID may initially be inactive subsequent to being assigned the updated TAG ID. The eNB may activate the updated new SCell and start scheduling packets on the activated SCell. In some examples, it may not be possible to change the TAG associated with an SCell, but rather, the SCell may need to be removed and a new SCell may need to be added with another TAG. For example, if there is a need to move an SCell from an sTAG to a pTAG, at least one RRC message, such as at least one RRC reconfiguration message, may be sent to the wireless device. The at least one RRC message may be sent to the wireless device to reconfigure TAG configurations, e.g., by releasing the SCell and configuring the SCell as a part of the pTAG. If, e.g., an SCell is added or configured without a TAG index, the SCell may be explicitly assigned to the pTAG. The PCell may not change its TA group and may be a member of the pTAG.

In LTE Release-10 and Release-11 CA, a PUCCH transmission is only transmitted on a PCell (e.g., a PSCell) to an eNB. In LTE-Release 12 and earlier, a wireless device may transmit PUCCH information on one cell (e.g., a PCell or a PSCell) to a given eNB. As the number of CA capable wireless devices increase, and as the number of aggregated carriers increase, the number of PUCCHs and the PUCCH payload size may increase. Accommodating the PUCCH transmissions on the PCell may lead to a high PUCCH load on the PCell. A PUCCH on an SCell may be used to offload the PUCCH resource from the PCell. More than one PUCCH may be configured. For example, a PUCCH on a PCell may be configured and another PUCCH on an SCell may be configured. One, two, or more cells may be configured with PUCCH resources for transmitting CSI, acknowledgment (ACK), and/or non-acknowledgment (NACK) to a base station. Cells may be grouped into multiple PUCCH groups, and one or more cell within a group may be configured with a PUCCH. In some examples, one SCell may belong to one PUCCH group. SCells with a configured PUCCH transmitted to a base station may be called a PUCCH SCell, and a cell group with a common PUCCH resource transmitted to the same base station may be called a PUCCH group.

A MAC entity may have a configurable timer, e.g., timeAlignmentTimer, per TAG. The timeAlignmentTimer may be used to control how long the MAC entity considers the serving cells belonging to the associated TAG to be uplink time aligned. If a Timing Advance Command MAC control element is received, the MAC entity may apply the Timing Advance Command for the indicated TAG; and/or the MAC entity may start or restart the timeAlignmentTimer associated with a TAG that may be indicated by the Timing Advance Command MAC control element. If a Timing Advance Command is received in a Random Access Response message for a serving cell belonging to a TAG, the MAC entity may apply the Timing Advance Command for this TAG and/or start or restart the timeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG. Additionally or alternatively, if the Random Access Preamble is not selected by the MAC entity, the MAC entity may apply the Timing Advance Command for this TAG and/or start or restart the timeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG. If the timeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG is not running, the Timing Advance Command for this TAG may be applied, and the timeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG may be started. If the contention resolution is not successful, a timeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG may be stopped. If the contention resolution is successful, the MAC entity may ignore the received Timing Advance Command. The MAC entity may determine whether the contention resolution is successful or whether the contention resolution is not successful.

10 FIG.A 10 FIG.B 1020 1010 1020 1010 1040 1030 1040 1030 andshow examples for interfaces between a 5G core network (e.g., NGC) and base stations (e.g., gNB and eLTE eNB). A base station, such as a gNB, may be interconnected to an NGCcontrol plane employing an NG-C interface. The base station, e.g., the gNB, may also be interconnected to an NGCuser plane (e.g., UPGW) employing an NG-U interface. As another example, a base station, such as an eLTE eNB, may be interconnected to an NGCcontrol plane employing an NG-C interface. The base station, e.g., the eLTE eNB, may also be interconnected to an NGCuser plane (e.g., UPGW) employing an NG-U interface. An NG interface may support a many-to-many relation between 5G core networks and base stations.

11 FIG.A 11 FIG.B 11 FIG.C 11 FIG.D 11 FIG.E 11 FIG.F ,,,,, andare examples for architectures of tight interworking between a 5G RAN and an LTE RAN. The tight interworking may enable a multiple receiver/transmitter (RX/TX) wireless device in an RRC_CONNECTED state to be configured to utilize radio resources provided by two schedulers located in two base stations (e.g., an eLTE eNB and a gNB). The two base stations may be connected via a non-ideal or ideal backhaul over the Xx interface between an LTE eNB and a gNB, or over the Xn interface between an eLTE eNB and a gNB. Base stations involved in tight interworking for a certain wireless device may assume different roles. For example, a base station may act as a master base station or a base station may act as a secondary base station. In tight interworking, a wireless device may be connected to both a master base station and a secondary base station. Mechanisms implemented in tight interworking may be extended to cover more than two base stations.

1102 1102 1101 1101 1103 1103 1102 1102 1103 1101 1102 1103 1101 11 FIG.A 11 FIG.B A master base station may be an LTE eNBA or an LTE eNBB, which may be connected to EPC nodesA orB, respectively. This connection to EPC nodes may be, e.g., to an MME via the S1-C interface and/or to an S-GW via the S1-U interface. A secondary base station may be a gNBA or a gNBB, either or both of which may be a non-standalone node having a control plane connection via an Xx-C interface to an LTE eNB (e.g., the LTE eNBA or the LTE eNBB). In the tight interworking architecture of, a user plane for a gNB (e.g., the gNBA) may be connected to an S-GW (e.g., the EPCA) through an LTE eNB (e.g., the LTE eNBA), via an Xx-U interface between the LTE eNB and the gNB, and via an S1-U interface between the LTE eNB and the S-GW. In the architecture of, a user plane for a gNB (e.g., the gNBB) may be connected directly to an S-GW (e.g., the EPCB) via an S1-U interface between the gNB and the S-GW.

1103 1103 1101 1101 1102 1102 1103 1103 1102 1101 1103 1102 1101 11 FIG.C 11 FIG.D A master base station may be a gNBC or a gNBD, which may be connected to NGC nodesC orD, respectively. This connection to NGC nodes may be, e.g., to a control plane core node via the NG-C interface and/or to a user plane core node via the NG-U interface. A secondary base station may be an eLTE eNBC or an eLTE eNBD, either or both of which may be a non-standalone node having a control plane connection via an Xn-C interface to a gNB (e.g., the gNBC or the gNBD). In the tight interworking architecture of, a user plane for an eLTE eNB (e.g., the eLTE eNBC) may be connected to a user plane core node (e.g., the NGCC) through a gNB (e.g., the gNBC), via an Xn-U interface between the eLTE eNB and the gNB, and via an NG-U interface between the gNB and the user plane core node. In the architecture of, a user plane for an eLTE eNB (e.g., the eLTE eNBD) may be connected directly to a user plane core node (e.g., the NGCD) via an NG-U interface between the eLTE eNB and the user plane core node.

1102 1102 1101 1101 1103 1103 1102 1102 1103 1101 1102 1103 1101 11 FIG.E 11 FIG.F A master base station may be an eLTE eNBE or an eLTE eNBF, which may be connected to NGC nodesE orF, respectively. This connection to NGC nodes may be, e.g., to a control plane core node via the NG-C interface and/or to a user plane core node via the NG-U interface. A secondary base station may be a gNBE or a gNBF, either or both of which may be a non-standalone node having a control plane connection via an Xn-C interface to an eLTE eNB (e.g., the eLTE eNBE or the eLTE eNBF). In the tight interworking architecture of, a user plane for a gNB (e.g., the gNBE) may be connected to a user plane core node (e.g., the NGCE) through an eLTE eNB (e.g., the eLTE eNBE), via an Xn-U interface between the eLTE eNB and the gNB, and via an NG-U interface between the eLTE eNB and the user plane core node. In the architecture of, a user plane for a gNB (e.g., the gNBF) may be connected directly to a user plane core node (e.g., the NGCF) via an NG-U interface between the gNB and the user plane core node.

12 FIG.A 12 FIG.B 12 FIG.C ,, andare examples for radio protocol structures of tight interworking bearers.

1201 1210 1201 1210 1206 1212 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205 1206 1205 1206 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214 1214 An LTE eNBA may be an S1 master base station, and a gNBA may be an S1 secondary base station. An example for a radio protocol architecture for a split bearer and an SCG bearer is shown. The LTE eNBA may be connected to an EPC with a non-standalone gNBA, via an Xx interface between the PDCPA and an NR RLCA. The LTE eNBA may include protocol layers MACA, RLCA and RLCA, and PDCPA and PDCPA. An MCG bearer type may interface with the PDCPA, and a split bearer type may interface with the PDCPA. The gNBA may include protocol layers NR MACA, NR RLCA and NR RLCA, and NR PDCPA. An SCG bearer type may interface with the NR PDCPA.

1201 1210 1201 1210 1206 1212 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205 1206 1205 1206 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214 1214 A gNBB may be an NG master base station, and an eLTE eNBB may be an NG secondary base station. An example for a radio protocol architecture for a split bearer and an SCG bearer is shown. The gNBB may be connected to an NGC with a non-standalone eLTE eNBB, via an Xn interface between the NR PDCPB and an RLCB. The gNBB may include protocol layers NR MACB, NR RLCB and NR RLCB, and NR PDCPB and NR PDCPB. An MCG bearer type may interface with the NR PDCPB, and a split bearer type may interface with the NR PDCPB. The eLTE eNBB may include protocol layers MACB, RLCB and RLCB, and PDCPB. An SCG bearer type may interface with the PDCPB.

1201 1210 1201 1210 1206 1212 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205 1206 1205 1206 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214 1214 An eLTE eNBC may be an NG master base station, and a gNBC may be an NG secondary base station. An example for a radio protocol architecture for a split bearer and an SCG bearer is shown. The eLTE eNBC may be connected to an NGC with a non-standalone gNBC, via an Xn interface between the PDCPC and an NR RLCC. The eLTE eNBC may include protocol layers MACC, RLCC and RLCC, and PDCPC and PDCPC. An MCG bearer type may interface with the PDCPC, and a split bearer type may interface with the PDCPC. The gNBC may include protocol layers NR MACC, NR RLCC and NR RLCC, and NR PDCPC. An SCG bearer type may interface with the NR PDCPC.

12 FIG.A 12 FIG.B 12 FIG.C In a 5G network, the radio protocol architecture that a particular bearer uses may depend on how the bearer is setup. At least three alternatives may exist, e.g., an MCG bearer, an SCG bearer, and a split bearer, such as shown in,, and. The NR RRC may be located in a master base station, and the SRBs may be configured as an MCG bearer type and may use the radio resources of the master base station. Tight interworking may have at least one bearer configured to use radio resources provided by the secondary base station. Tight interworking may or may not be configured or implemented.

The wireless device may be configured with two MAC entities: e.g., one MAC entity for a master base station, and one MAC entity for a secondary base station. In tight interworking, the configured set of serving cells for a wireless device may comprise of two subsets: e.g., the Master Cell Group (MCG) including the serving cells of the master base station, and the Secondary Cell Group (SCG) including the serving cells of the secondary base station.

At least one cell in a SCG may have a configured UL CC and one of them, e.g., a PSCell (or the PCell of the SCG, which may also be called a PCell), is configured with PUCCH resources. If the SCG is configured, there may be at least one SCG bearer or one split bearer. If one or more of a physical layer problem or a random access problem is detected on a PSCell, if the maximum number of (NR) RLC retransmissions associated with the SCG has been reached, and/or if an access problem on a PSCell during an SCG addition or during an SCG change is detected, then: an RRC connection re-establishment procedure may not be triggered, UL transmissions towards cells of the SCG may be stopped, a master base station may be informed by the wireless device of a SCG failure type, and/or for a split bearer the DL data transfer over the master base station may be maintained. The RLC AM bearer may be configured for the split bearer. Like the PCell, a PSCell may not be de-activated. A PSCell may be changed with an SCG change, e.g., with security key change and a RACH procedure. A direct bearer type change, between a split bearer and an SCG bearer, may not be supported. Simultaneous configuration of an SCG and a split bearer may not be supported.

A master base station and a secondary base station may interact. The master base station may maintain the RRM measurement configuration of the wireless device. The master base station may determine to ask a secondary base station to provide additional resources (e.g., serving cells) for a wireless device. This determination may be based on, e.g., received measurement reports, traffic conditions, and/or bearer types. If a request from the master base station is received, a secondary base station may create a container that may result in the configuration of additional serving cells for the wireless device, or the secondary base station may determine that it has no resource available to do so. The master base station may provide at least part of the AS configuration and the wireless device capabilities to the secondary base station, e.g., for wireless device capability coordination. The master base station and the secondary base station may exchange information about a wireless device configuration such as by using RRC containers (e.g., inter-node messages) carried in Xn or Xx messages. The secondary base station may initiate a reconfiguration of its existing serving cells (e.g., PUCCH towards the secondary base station). The secondary base station may determine which cell is the PSCell within the SCG. The master base station may not change the content of the RRC configuration provided by the secondary base station. If an SCG is added and/or an SCG SCell is added, the master base station may provide the latest measurement results for the SCG cell(s). Either or both of a master base station and a secondary base station may know the SFN and subframe offset of each other by OAM, (e.g., for the purpose of DRX alignment and identification of a measurement gap). If a new SCG SCell is added, dedicated RRC signaling may be used for sending required system information of the cell, such as for CA, except, e.g., for the SFN acquired from an MIB of the PSCell of an SCG.

13 FIG.A 13 FIG.B 1301 1310 1302 1303 1304 1302 1303 1304 1311 1312 1313 1314 1311 1312 1313 1314 1311 1312 1313 1314 1311 1312 1313 1314 1311 1312 1313 1314 andshow examples for gNB deployment. A coreand a coremay interface with other nodes via RAN-CN interfaces. In a non-centralized deployment example, the full protocol stack (e.g., NR RRC, NR PDCP, NR RLC, NR MAC, and NR PHY) may be supported at one node, such as a gNB, a gNB, and/or an eLTE eNB or LTE eNB. These nodes (e.g., the gNB, the gNB, and the eLTE eNB or LTE eNB) may interface with one of more of each other via a respective inter-BS interface. In a centralized deployment example, upper layers of a gNB may be located in a Central Unit (CU), and lower layers of the gNB may be located in Distributed Units (DU),, and. The CU-DU interface (e.g., Fs interface) connecting CUand DUs,, andmay be ideal or non-ideal. The Fs-C may provide a control plane connection over the Fs interface, and the Fs-U may provide a user plane connection over the Fs interface. In the centralized deployment, different functional split options between the CUand the DUs,, andmay be possible by locating different protocol layers (e.g., RAN functions) in the CUand in the DU,, and. The functional split may support flexibility to move the RAN functions between the CUand the DUs,, anddepending on service requirements and/or network environments. The functional split option may change during operation (e.g., after the Fs interface setup procedure), or the functional split option may change only in the Fs setup procedure (e.g., the functional split option may be static during operation after Fs setup procedure).

14 FIG. 14 FIG. 1402 1402 1401 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 1401 1403 1410 1401 1403 1404 1405 1410 1401 1403 1410 1401 1403 1406 1407 1410 1401 1403 1410 1401 1403 1408 1409 1410 1401 1403 1410 shows examples for different functional split options of a centralized gNB deployment. Element numerals that are followed by “A” or “B” designations inmay represent the same elements in different traffic flows, e.g., either receiving data (e.g., dataA) or sending data (e.g.,B). In the split option example 1, an NR RRCmay be in a CU, and an NR PDCP, an NR RLC (e.g., comprising a High NR RLCand/or a Low NR RLC), an NR MAC (e.g., comprising a High NR MACand/or a Low NR MAC), an NR PHY (e.g., comprising a High NR PHYand/or a LOW NR PHY), and an RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 2, the NR RRCand the NR PDCPmay be in a CU, and the NR RLC, the NR MAC, the NR PHY, and the RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 3, the NR RRC, the NR PDCP, and a partial function of the NR RLC (e.g., the High NR RLC) may be in a CU, and the other partial function of the NR RLC (e.g., the Low NR RLC), the NR MAC, the NR PHY, and the RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 4, the NR RRC, the NR PDCP, and the NR RLC may be in a CU, and the NR MAC, the NR PHY, and the RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 5, the NR RRC, the NR PDCP, the NR RLC, and a partial function of the NR MAC (e.g., the High NR MAC) may be in a CU, and the other partial function of the NR MAC (e.g., the Low NR MAC), the NR PHY, and the RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 6, the NR RRC, the NR PDCP, the NR RLC, and the NR MAC may be in CU, and the NR PHY and the RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 7, the NR RRC, the NR PDCP, the NR RLC, the NR MAC, and a partial function of the NR PHY (e.g., the High NR PHY) may be in a CU, and the other partial function of the NR PHY (e.g., the Low NR PHY) and the RFmay be in a DU. In the split option example 8, the NR RRC, the NR PDCP, the NR RLC, the NR MAC, and the NR PHY may be in a CU, and the RFmay be in a DU.

The functional split may be configured per CU, per DU, per wireless device, per bearer, per slice, and/or with other granularities. In a per CU split, a CU may have a fixed split, and DUs may be configured to match the split option of the CU. In a per DU split, each DU may be configured with a different split, and a CU may provide different split options for different DUs. In a per wireless device split, a gNB (e.g., a CU and a DU) may provide different split options for different wireless devices. In a per bearer split, different split options may be utilized for different bearer types. In a per slice splice, different split options may be applied for different slices.

A new radio access network (new RAN) may support different network slices, which may allow differentiated treatment customized to support different service requirements with end to end scope. The new RAN may provide a differentiated handling of traffic for different network slices that may be pre-configured, and the new RAN may allow a single RAN node to support multiple slices. The new RAN may support selection of a RAN part for a given network slice, e.g., by one or more slice ID(s) or NSSAI(s) provided by a wireless device or provided by an NGC (e.g., an NG CP). The slice ID(s) or NSSAI(s) may identify one or more of pre-configured network slices in a PLMN. For an initial attach, a wireless device may provide a slice ID and/or an NSSAI, and a RAN node (e.g., a gNB) may use the slice ID or the NSSAI for routing an initial NAS signaling to an NGC control plane function (e.g., an NG CP). If a wireless device does not provide any slice ID or NSSAI, a RAN node may send a NAS signaling to a default NGC control plane function. For subsequent accesses, the wireless device may provide a temporary ID for a slice identification, which may be assigned by the NGC control plane function, to enable a RAN node to route the NAS message to a relevant NGC control plane function. The new RAN may support resource isolation between slices. If the RAN resource isolation is implemented, shortage of shared resources in one slice does not cause a break in a service level agreement for another slice.

The amount of data traffic carried over networks is expected to increase for many years to come. The number of users and/or devices is increasing and each user/device accesses an increasing number and variety of services, e.g., video delivery, large files, and images. This requires not only high capacity in the network, but also provisioning very high data rates to meet customers' expectations on interactivity and responsiveness. More spectrum may be required for network operators to meet the increasing demand. Considering user expectations of high data rates along with seamless mobility, it is beneficial that more spectrum be made available for deploying macro cells as well as small cells for communication systems.

Striving to meet the market demands, there has been increasing interest from operators in deploying some complementary access utilizing unlicensed spectrum to meet the traffic growth. This is exemplified by the large number of operator-deployed Wi-Fi networks and the 3GPP standardization of LTE/WLAN interworking solutions. This interest indicates that unlicensed spectrum, if present, may be an effective complement to licensed spectrum for network operators, e.g., to help address the traffic explosion in some examples, such as hotspot areas. Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) offers an alternative for operators to make use of unlicensed spectrum, e.g., if managing one radio network, offering new possibilities for optimizing the network's efficiency.

Listen-before-talk (clear channel assessment) may be implemented for transmission in an LAA cell. In a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, equipment may apply a clear channel assessment (CCA) check before using the channel. For example, the CCA may utilize at least energy detection to determine the presence or absence of other signals on a channel to determine if a channel is occupied or clear, respectively. For example, European and Japanese regulations mandate the usage of LBT in the unlicensed bands. Apart from regulatory requirements, carrier sensing via LBT may be one way for fair sharing of the unlicensed spectrum.

Discontinuous transmission on an unlicensed carrier with limited maximum transmission duration may be enabled. Some of these functions may be supported by one or more signals to be transmitted from the beginning of a discontinuous LAA downlink transmission. Channel reservation may be enabled by the transmission of signals, by an LAA node, after gaining channel access, e.g., via a successful LBT operation, so that other nodes that receive the transmitted signal with energy above a certain threshold sense the channel to be occupied. Functions that may need to be supported by one or more signals for LAA operation with discontinuous downlink transmission may include one or more of the following: detection of the LAA downlink transmission (including cell identification) by wireless devices, time synchronization of wireless devices, and frequency synchronization of wireless devices.

DL LAA design may employ subframe boundary alignment according to LTE-A carrier aggregation timing relationships across serving cells aggregated by CA. This may not indicate that the eNB transmissions may start only at the subframe boundary. LAA may support transmitting PDSCH if not all OFDM symbols are available for transmission in a subframe according to LBT. Delivery of necessary control information for the PDSCH may also be supported.

LBT procedures may be employed for fair and friendly coexistence of LAA with other operators and technologies operating in unlicensed spectrum. LBT procedures on a node attempting to transmit on a carrier in unlicensed spectrum may require the node to perform a clear channel assessment to determine if the channel is free for use. An LBT procedure may involve at least energy detection to determine if the channel is being used. For example, regulatory requirements in some regions, e.g., in Europe, specify an energy detection threshold such that if a node receives energy greater than this threshold, the node assumes that the channel is not free. Nodes may follow such regulatory requirements. A node may optionally use a lower threshold for energy detection than that specified by regulatory requirements. LAA may employ a mechanism to adaptively change the energy detection threshold, e.g., LAA may employ a mechanism to adaptively lower the energy detection threshold from an upper bound. Adaptation mechanism may not preclude static or semi-static setting of the threshold. A Category 4 LBT mechanism or other type of LBT mechanisms may be implemented.

Various example LBT mechanisms may be implemented. For some signals, in some implementation scenarios, in some situations, and/or in some frequencies, no LBT procedure may performed by the transmitting entity. For example, Category 2 (e.g., LBT without random back-off) may be implemented. The duration of time that the channel is sensed to be idle before the transmitting entity transmits may be deterministic. For example, Category 3 (e.g., LBT with random back-off with a contention window of fixed size) may be implemented. The LBT procedure may have the following procedure as one of its components. The transmitting entity may draw a random number N within a contention window. The size of the contention window may be specified by the minimum and maximum value of N. The size of the contention window may be fixed. The random number N may be employed in the LBT procedure to determine the duration of time that the channel is sensed to be idle, e.g., before the transmitting entity transmits on the channel. For example, Category 4 (e.g., LBT with random back-off with a contention window of variable size) may be implemented. The transmitting entity may draw a random number N within a contention window. The size of contention window may be specified by the minimum and maximum value of N. The transmitting entity may vary the size of the contention window if drawing the random number N. The random number N may be used in the LBT procedure to determine the duration of time that the channel is sensed to be idle, e.g., before the transmitting entity transmits on the channel.

LAA may employ uplink LBT at the wireless device. The UL LBT scheme may be different from the DL LBT scheme, e.g., by using different LBT mechanisms or parameters. These differences in schemes may be due to the LAA UL being based on scheduled access, which may affect a wireless device's channel contention opportunities. Other considerations motivating a different UL LBT scheme may include, but are not limited to, multiplexing of multiple wireless devices in a single subframe.

A DL transmission burst may be a continuous transmission from a DL transmitting node, e.g., with no transmission immediately before or after from the same node on the same CC. An UL transmission burst from a wireless device perspective may be a continuous transmission from a wireless device, e.g., with no transmission immediately before or after from the same wireless device on the same CC. A UL transmission burst may be defined from a wireless device perspective or from an eNB perspective. If an eNB is operating DL and UL LAA over the same unlicensed carrier, DL transmission burst(s) and UL transmission burst(s) on LAA may be scheduled in a TDM manner over the same unlicensed carrier. An instant in time may be part of a DL transmission burst or part of an UL transmission burst.

A base station may transmit a plurality of beams to a wireless device. A serving beam may be determined, from the plurality of beams, for the wireless communications between the base station and the wireless device. One or more candidate beams may also be determined, from the plurality of beams, for providing the wireless communications if a beam failure event occurs, e.g., such that the serving beam becomes unable to provide the desired communications. One or more candidate beams may be determined by a wireless device and/or by a base station. By determining and configuring a candidate beam, the wireless device and base station may continue wireless communications if the serving beam experiences a beam failure event.

Single beam and multi-beam operations may be supported, e.g., in a NR (New Radio) system. In a multi-beam example, a base station (e.g., a gNB in NR) may perform a downlink beam sweep to provide coverage for DL synchronization signals (SSs) and common control channels. Wireless devices may perform uplink beam sweeps for UL direction to access a cell. In a single beam example, a base station may configure time-repetition within one synchronization signal (SS) block. This time-repetition may comprise, e.g., one or more of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). These signals may be in a wide beam. In a multi-beam examples, a base station may configure one or more of these signals and physical channels, such as an SS Block, in multiple beams. A wireless device may identify, e.g., from an SS block, an OFDM symbol index, a slot index in a radio frame, and a radio frame number.

15 FIG. 1501 1502 1502 1503 1504 1502 1502 1502 1502 1503 In an RRC_INACTIVE state or in an RRC_IDLE state, a wireless device may assume that SS blocks form an SS burst and an SS burst set. An SS burst set may have a given periodicity. SS blocks may be transmitted together in multiple beams (e.g., in multiple beam examples) to form an SS burst. One or more SS blocks may be transmitted via one beam. A beam may have a steering direction. If multiple SS bursts transmit beams, these SS bursts together may form an SS burst set, such as shown in. A base station(e.g., a gNB in NR) may transmit SS burstsA toH during time periods. A plurality of these SS bursts may comprise an SS burst set, such as an SS burst set(e.g., SS burstsA andE). An SS burst set may comprise any number of a plurality of SS burstsA toH. Each SS burst within an SS burst set may transmitted at a fixed or variable periodicity during time periods.

In a multi-beam example, one or more of PSS, SSS, or PBCH signals may be repeated for a cell, e.g., to support cell selection, cell reselection, and/or initial access procedures. For an SS burst, an associated PBCH or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling system information may be broadcasted by a base station to multiple wireless devices. The PDSCH may be indicated by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a common search space. The system information may comprise system information block type 2 (SIB2). SIB2 may carry a physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration for a beam. For a beam, a base station (e.g., a gNB in NR) may have a RACH configuration which may include a PRACH preamble pool, time and/or frequency radio resources, and other power related parameters. A wireless device may use a PRACH preamble from a RACH configuration to initiate a contention-based RACH procedure or a contention-free RACH procedure. A wireless device may perform a 4-step RACH procedure, which may be a contention-based RACH procedure or a contention-free RACH procedure. The wireless device may select a beam associated with an SS block that may have the best receiving signal quality. The wireless device may successfully detect a cell identifier that may be associated with the cell and decode system information with a RACH configuration. The wireless device may use one PRACH preamble and select one PRACH resource from RACH resources indicated by the system information associated with the selected beam. A PRACH resource may comprise at least one of: a PRACH index indicating a PRACH preamble, a PRACH format, a PRACH numerology, time and/or frequency radio resource allocation, power setting of a PRACH transmission, and/or other radio resource parameters. For a contention-free RACH procedure, the PRACH preamble and resource may be indicated in a DCI or other high layer signaling.

16 FIG. 16 FIG. 1620 1621 1601 1621 1620 1601 1602 1621 1620 1603 1621 1620 1604 1621 1620 1603 1604 1610 1602 1604 shows an example of a random access procedure (e.g., via a RACH) that may include sending, by a base station, one or more SS blocks. A wireless device(e.g., a UE) may transmit one or more preambles to a base station(e.g., a gNB in NR). Each preamble transmission by the wireless device may be associated with a separate random access procedure, such as shown in. The random access procedure may begin at stepwith a base station(e.g., a gNB in NR) sending a first SS block to a wireless device(e.g., a UE). Any of the SS blocks may comprise one or more of a PSS, SSS, tertiary synchronization signal (TSS), or PBCH signal. The first SS block in stepmay be associated with a first PRACH configuration. At step, the base stationmay send to the wireless devicea second SS block that may be associated with a second PRACH configuration. At step, the base stationmay send to the wireless devicea third SS block that may be associated with a third PRACH configuration. At step, the base stationmay send to the wireless devicea fourth SS block that may be associated with a fourth PRACH configuration. Any number of SS blocks may be sent in the same manner in addition to, or replacing, stepsand. An SS burst may comprise any number of SS blocks. For example, SS burstcomprises the three SS blocks sent during steps-.

1620 1621 1605 1605 1601 1604 1620 1621 1606 1606 1621 1621 The wireless devicemay send to the base stationa preamble, at step, e.g., after or in response to receiving one or more SS blocks or SS bursts. The preamble may comprise a PRACH preamble, and may be referred to as RA Msg 1. The PRACH preamble may be transmitted in stepaccording to or based on a PRACH configuration that may be received in an SS block (e.g., one of the SS blocks from steps-) that may be determined to be the best SS block beam. The wireless devicemay determine a best SS block beam from among SS blocks it may receive prior to sending the PRACH preamble. The base stationmay send a random access response (RAR), which may be referred to as RA Msg2, at step, e.g., after or in response to receiving the PRACH preamble. The RAR may be transmitted in stepvia a DL beam that corresponds to the SS block beam associated with the PRACH configuration. The base stationmay determine the best SS block beam from among SS blocks it previously sent prior to receiving the PRACH preamble. The base stationmay receive the PRACH preamble according to or based on the PRACH configuration associated with the best SS block beam.

1620 1621 1607 1621 1620 1608 1620 1621 1609 1620 1621 The wireless devicemay send to the base stationan RRCConnectionRequest and/or RRCConnectionResumeRequest message, which may be referred to as RA Msg3, at step, e.g., after or in response to receiving the RAR. The base stationmay send to the wireless devicean RRCConnectionSetup and/or RRCConnectionResume message, which may be referred to as RA Msg4, at step, e.g., after or in response to receiving the RRCConnectionRequest and/or RRCConnectionResumeRequest message. The wireless devicemay send to the base stationan RRCConnectionSetupComplete and/or RRCConnectionResumeComplete message, which may be referred to as RA Msg5, at step, e.g., after or in response to receiving the RRCConnectionSetup and/or RRCConnectionResume. An RRC connection may be established between the wireless deviceand the base station, and the random access procedure may end, e.g., after or in response to receiving the RRCConnectionSetupComplete and/or RRCConnectionResumeComplete message.

A best beam, including but not limited to a best SS block beam, may be determined based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS). A wireless device may use a CSI-RS in a multi-beam system for estimating the beam quality of the links between the wireless device and a base station. For example, based on a measurement of a CSI-RS, a wireless device may report CSI for downlink channel adaption. A CSI parameter may include a precoding matrix index (PMI), a channel quality index (CQI) value, and/or a rank indicator (RI). A wireless device may report a beam index based on a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement on a CSI-RS. The wireless device may report the beam index in a CSI resource indication (CRI) for downlink beam selection. A base station may transmit a CSI-RS via a CSI-RS resource, such as via one or more antenna ports, or via one or more time and/or frequency radio resources. A beam may be associated with a CSI-RS. A CSI-RS may comprise an indication of a beam direction. Each of a plurality of beams may be associated with one of a plurality of CSI-RSs. A CSI-RS resource may be configured in a cell-specific way, e.g., via common RRC signaling. Additionally or alternatively, a CSI-RS resource may be configured in a wireless device-specific way, e.g., via dedicated RRC signaling and/or layer 1 and/or layer 2 (L1/L2) signaling. Multiple wireless devices in or served by a cell may measure a cell-specific CSI-RS resource. A dedicated subset of wireless devices in or served by a cell may measure a wireless device-specific CSI-RS resource. A base station may transmit a CSI-RS resource periodically, using aperiodic transmission, or using a multi-shot or semi-persistent transmission. In a periodic transmission, a base station may transmit the configured CSI-RS resource using a configured periodicity in the time domain. In an aperiodic transmission, a base station may transmit the configured CSI-RS resource in a dedicated time slot. In a multi-shot or semi-persistent transmission, a base station may transmit the configured CSI-RS resource in a configured period. A base station may configure different CSI-RS resources in different terms for different purposes. Different terms may include, e.g., cell-specific, device-specific, periodic, aperiodic, multi-shot, or other terms. Different purposes may include, e.g., beam management, CQI reporting, or other purposes.

17 FIG. 1701 1703 1704 1702 1703 1702 1702 1702 1702 1702 shows an example of transmitting CSI-RSs periodically for a beam. A base stationmay transmit a beam in a predefined order in the time domain, such as during time periods. Beams used for a CSI-RS transmission, such as for CSI-RSin transmissionsC and/orE, may have a different beam width relative to a beam width for SS-blocks transmission, such as for SS blocksA,B,D, andF-H. Additionally or alternatively, a beam width of a beam used for a CSI-RS transmission may have the same value as a beam width for an SS block. Some or all of one or more CSI-RSs may be included in one or more beams. An SS block may occupy a number of OFDM symbols (e.g., 4), and a number of subcarriers (e.g., 240), carrying a synchronization sequence signal. The synchronization sequence signal may identify a cell.

18 FIG. 18 FIG. shows an example of a CSI-RS that may be mapped in time and frequency domains. Each square shown inmay represent a resource block within a bandwidth of a cell. Each resource block may comprise a number of subcarriers. A cell may have a bandwidth comprising a number of resource blocks. A base station (e.g., a gNB in NR) may transmit one or more RRC messages comprising CSI-RS parameters for one or more CSI-RS. CSI-RS parameters for a CSI-RS may comprise, e.g., time and OFDM frequency parameters, port numbers, CSI-RS index, and/or CSI-RS sequence parameters. Time and frequency parameters may indicate, e.g., periodicity, subframes, symbol numbers, OFDM subcarriers, and/or other radio resource parameters. CSI-RS may be configured using common parameters, e.g., when a plurality of wireless devices receive the same CSI-RS signal. CSI-RS may be configured using wireless device dedicated parameters, e.g., when a CSI-RS is configured for a specific wireless device.

18 FIG. 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 As shown in, three beams may be configured for a wireless device, e.g., in a wireless device-specific configuration. Any number of additional beams (e.g., represented by the column of blank squares) or fewer beams may be included. Beammay be allocated with CSI-RSthat may be transmitted in some subcarriers in a resource block (RB) of a first symbol. Beammay be allocated with CSI-RSthat may be transmitted in some subcarriers in a RB of a second symbol. Beammay be allocated with CSI-RSthat may be transmitted in some subcarriers in a RB of a third symbol. All subcarriers in a RB may not necessarily be used for transmitting a particular CSI-RS (e.g., CSI-RS) on an associated beam (e.g., beam) for that CSI-RS. By using frequency division multiplexing (FDM), other subcarriers, not used for beamfor the wireless device in the same RB, may be used for other CSI-RS transmissions associated with a different beam for other wireless devices. Additionally or alternatively, by using time domain multiplexing (TDM), beams used for a wireless device may be configured such that different beams (e.g., beam, beam, and beam) for the wireless device may be transmitted using some symbols different from beams of other wireless devices.

Beam management may use a device-specific configured CSI-RS. In a beam management procedure, a wireless device may monitor a channel quality of a beam pair link comprising a transmitting beam by a base station (e.g., a gNB in NR) and a receiving beam by the wireless device (e.g., a UE). When multiple CSI-RSs associated with multiple beams are configured, a wireless device may monitor multiple beam pair links between the base station and the wireless device.

A wireless device may transmit one or more beam management reports to a base station. A beam management report may indicate one or more beam pair quality parameters, comprising, e.g., one or more beam identifications, RSRP, PMI, CQI, and/or RI, of a subset of configured beams.

1 2 2 1 2 1 3 A base station and/or a wireless device may perform a downlink L1/L2 beam management procedure. One or more downlink L1/L2 beam management procedures may be performed within one or multiple transmission and receiving points (TRPs). Procedure P-may be used to enable a wireless device measurement on different TRP transmit (Tx) beams, e.g., to support a selection of TRP Tx beams and/or wireless device receive (Rx) beam(s). Beamforming at a TRP may include, e.g., an intra-TRP and/or inter-TRP Tx beam sweep from a set of different beams. Beamforming at a wireless device, may include, e.g., a wireless device Rx beam sweep from a set of different beams. Procedure P-may be used to enable a wireless device measurement on different TRP Tx beams, e.g., which may change inter-TRP and/or intra-TRP Tx beam(s). Procedure P-may be performed, e.g., on a smaller set of beams for beam refinement than in procedure P-. P-may be a particular example of P-. P-may be used to enable a wireless device measurement on the same TRP Tx beam, e.g., to change a wireless device Rx beam if a wireless device uses beamforming.

Based on a wireless device's beam management report, a base station may transmit, to the wireless device, a signal indicating that one or more beam pair links are the one or more serving beams. The base station may transmit PDCCH and/or PDSCH for the wireless device using the one or more serving beams.

A wireless device (e.g., a UE) and/or a base station (e.g., a gNB) may trigger a beam failure recovery mechanism. A wireless device may trigger a beam failure recovery (BFR) request transmission, e.g., when a beam failure event occurs. A beam failure event may include, e.g., a determination that a quality of beam pair link(s) of an associated control channel is unsatisfactory. A determination of an unsatisfactory quality of beam pair link(s) of an associated channel may be based on the quality falling below a threshold and/or an expiration of a timer.

A wireless device may measure a quality of beam pair link(s) using one or more reference signals (RS). One or more SS blocks, one or more CSI-RS resources, and/or one or more demodulation reference signals (DM-RSs) of a PBCH may be used as a RS for measuring a quality of a beam pair link. A quality of a beam pair link may be based on one or more of an RSRP value, reference signal received quality (RSRQ) value, and/or CSI value measured on RS resources. A base station may indicate that an RS resource, e.g., that may be used for measuring a beam pair link quality, is quasi-co-located (QCLed) with one or more DM-RSs of a control channel. The RS resource and the DM-RSs of the control channel may be QCLed when the channel characteristics from a transmission via an RS to a wireless device, and the channel characteristics from a transmission via a control channel to the wireless device, are similar or the same under a configured criterion.

19 FIG. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1904 1905 1903 1904 1902 shows an example of a beam failure event involving a single TRP. A single TRP such as at a base stationmay transmit, to a wireless device, a first beamand a second beam. A beam failure event may occur if, e.g., a serving beam, such as the second beam, is blocked by a moving vehicleor other obstruction (e.g., building, tree, land, or any object) and configured beams (e.g., the first beamand the second beam), including the serving beam, are received from the single TRP. The wireless devicemay trigger a mechanism to recover from beam failure when a beam failure occurs.

20 FIG. 2001 2006 2002 2003 2001 2004 2006 2004 2005 2003 2004 2002 shows an example of a beam failure event involving multiple TRPs. Multiple TRPs, such as at a first base stationand at a second base station, may transmit, to a wireless device, a first beam(e.g., from the first base station) and a second beam(e.g., from the second base station). A beam failure event may occur when, e.g., a serving beam, such as the second beam, is blocked by a moving vehicleor other obstruction (e.g., building, tree, land, or any object) and configured beams (e.g., the first beamand the second beam) are received from multiple TRPs. The wireless devicemay trigger a mechanism to recover from beam failure when a beam failure occurs.

A wireless device may monitor a PDCCH, such as a New Radio PDCCH (NR-PDCCH), on M beam pair links simultaneously, where M≥1 and the maximum value of M may depend at least on the wireless device capability. Such monitoring may increase robustness against beam pair link blocking. A base station may transmit, and the wireless device may receive, one or more messages configured to cause the wireless device to monitor NR-PDCCH on different beam pair link(s) and/or in different NR-PDCCH OFDM symbols.

A base station may transmit higher layer signaling, and/or a MAC control element (MAC CE), that may comprise parameters related to a wireless device Rx beam setting for monitoring NR-PDCCH on multiple beam pair links. A base station may transmit one or more indications of a spatial QCL assumption between a first DL RS antenna port(s) and a second DL RS antenna port(s). The first DL RS antenna port(s) may be for one or more of a cell-specific CSI-RS, device-specific CSI-RS, SS block, PBCH with DM-RSs of PBCH, and/or PBCH without DM-RSs of PBCH. The second DL RS antenna port(s) may be for demodulation of a DL control channel. Signaling for a beam indication for a NR-PDCCH (e.g., configuration to monitor NR-PDCCH) may be via MAC CE signaling, RRC signaling, DCI signaling, or specification-transparent and/or an implicit method, and any combination thereof.

For reception of unicast DL data channel, a base station may indicate spatial QCL parameters between DL RS antenna port(s) and DM-RS antenna port(s) of DL data channel. A base station may transmit DCI (e.g., downlink grants) comprising information indicating the RS antenna port(s). The information may indicate the RS antenna port(s) which may be QCLed with DM-RS antenna port(s). A different set of DM-RS antenna port(s) for the DL data channel may be indicated as a QCL with a different set of RS antenna port(s).

If a base station transmits a signal indicating a spatial QCL parameters between CSI-RS and DM-RS for PDCCH, a wireless device may use CSI-RSs QCLed with DM-RS for a PDCCH to monitor beam pair link quality. If a beam failure event occurs, the wireless device may transmit a beam failure recovery request, such as by a determined configuration.

If a wireless device transmits a beam failure recovery request, e.g., via an uplink physical channel or signal, a base station may detect that there is a beam failure event, for the wireless device, by monitoring the uplink physical channel or signal. The base station may initiate a beam recovery mechanism to recover the beam pair link for transmitting PDCCH between the base station and the wireless device. The base station may transmit one or more control signals, to the wireless device, e.g., after or in response to receiving the beam failure recovery request. A beam recovery mechanism may be, e.g., an L1 scheme, or a higher layer scheme.

A base station may transmit one or more messages comprising, e.g., configuration parameters of an uplink physical channel and/or a signal for transmitting a beam failure recovery request. The uplink physical channel and/or signal may be based on at least one of the following: a non-contention based PRACH (e.g., a beam failure recovery PRACH or BFR-PRACH), which may use a resource orthogonal to resources of other PRACH transmissions; a PUCCH (e.g., beam failure recovery PUCCH or BFR-PUCCH); and/or a contention-based PRACH resource. Combinations of these candidate signal and/or channels may be configured by a base station.

A wireless device may transmit a preamble during a normal random access (RA) procedure or during a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure. In the RA procedure, the wireless device may transmit the preamble to establish, or re-establish, synchronization with a base station, e.g., using a 4-step contention-based procedure, or a contention-free procedure. In the BFR procedure, the wireless device may transmit the preamble to recover a beam pair link between the base station and the wireless device. The BFR procedure (for example, using a 2-step and/or contention-free procedure) may be more urgent and/or important than the RA procedure. RA procedures may not provide a sufficient likelihood that beam failure is recovered timely, whereas the BFR procedure may provide a greater likelihood that beam failure is recovered in a timely and power-efficient manner.

A transmission power for a preamble in the RA procedure may differ from a transmission power for a preamble in the BFR procedure. For example, a preamble of the BFR procedure may be transmitted using a transmission power that may exceed the transmission power for a preamble of a RA procedure and that may increase the likelihood that the preamble of the BFR procedure is received by a base station. The base station may configure these different transmission powers, e.g., by sending a first target received power for the preamble of the RA procedure and a second target received power for the preamble of the BFR procedure.

A wireless device may receive, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters may comprise a first preamble received target power value of the cell for a first random access procedure of a beam failure recovery procedure, and a second preamble received target power value of the cell for a second random access procedure. The configuration parameters may further comprise at least one of: a channel state information reference signal, a synchronization signal block, or a demodulation reference signal for a physical broadcast channel. The wireless device may measure, based on one or more first reference signal resources, a beam link quality. The wireless device may determine, based on the measured beam link quality, at least one beam failure. Based on determining the at least one beam failure, the wireless device may: initiate the beam failure recovery procedure, and initiate the first random access procedure. Based on detecting a beam failure of the cell, the wireless device may transmit, using a first transmission power that is based on the first preamble received target power value of the cell, a first preamble for the first random access procedure of the cell. The wireless device may determine the first transmission power by adding the first preamble received target power value and a preamble format parameter. The preamble format parameter may indicate a power offset value. The wireless device may determine the first transmission power based on a first reference signal power value and a first path loss value. This first path loss value may be based on a layer 1 reference signal received power value. The layer 1 reference signal received power value may be obtained based on a first reference signal associated with a serving beam. The layer 1 reference signal received power value may be obtained based on a second reference signal associated with a candidate beam. The wireless device may transmit, using a second transmission power that is based on the second preamble received target power value of the cell, a second preamble for the second random access procedure of the cell. The wireless device may select at least one reference signal resource, e.g., after or in response to receiving a physical downlink control channel order. The wireless device may transmit the second preamble after or in response to receiving a physical downlink control channel order. The wireless device may transmit the second preamble after or in response to initiating the second random access procedure for uplink synchronization.

A base station may transmit, to a wireless device one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters may comprise a first preamble received target power value of the cell for a first random access procedure of a beam failure recovery procedure, and a second preamble received target power value of the cell for a second random access procedure. The configuration parameters may further comprise at least one of: a channel state information reference signal, a synchronization signal block, or a demodulation reference signal for a physical broadcast channel. The base station may receive, from the wireless device using a first transmission power based on the first preamble received target power value of the cell, a first preamble for the first random access procedure of the cell. The first transmission power may comprise a sum of the first preamble received target power value and a preamble format parameter. The preamble format parameter may indicate a power offset value. The first transmission power may be based on to a first reference signal power value and a first path loss value. The first path loss value may be calculated based on a layer 1 reference signal received power value. The base station may receive from the wireless device using a second transmission power based on to the second preamble received target power value of the cell, a second preamble for the second random access procedure of the cell. The base station may determine, based on receiving the first preamble for the first random access procedure of the cell, at least one beam failure. After determining the at least one beam failure, the base station may: proceed with a beam failure recovery procedure, and proceed with the first random access procedure (e.g., by transmitting a downlink control information in response to the first preamble). The base station may successfully complete the BFR procedure. The base station may transmit a physical downlink control channel order, e.g., after or before receiving the second preamble.

A wireless device may receive, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters that comprise a first target power value for a beam failure recovery procedure, and a second target power value for a second random access procedure. The configuration parameters may further comprise at least one of: a channel state information reference signal, a synchronization signal block, or a demodulation reference signal for a physical broadcast channel. The wireless device may detect a failure of a first beam. The wireless device may transmit, using a first transmission power that is based on the first target power value, a first preamble for the beam failure recovery procedure. The wireless device may determine the first transmission power by adding the first target power value and a preamble format parameter. The preamble format parameter may indicate a power offset value. The wireless device may determine the first transmission power further based on a first reference signal power value and a first path loss value. The first path loss value may be based on a layer 1 reference signal received power value. The wireless device may receive a physical downlink control channel order. The wireless device may select at least one reference signal resource, e.g., after or in response to the receiving the physical downlink control channel order. The wireless device may transmit, using a second transmission power that is based on the second target power value, a second preamble for the second random access procedure. A system may comprise a wireless device and a base station.

A base station may transmit to a wireless device, and the wireless device may receive from the base station, at least one message, e.g., a radio resource control (RRC) message, comprising configuration parameters of one or more cells. The configuration parameters may comprise, e.g., one or more RS resources and/or one or more resource parameters. The RS resources may be for one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements. The RS resources may comprise, e.g., channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), SS blocks, and/or DM-RSs of a PBCH. Each of the plurality of CSI-RSs may be associated with a beam. The resource parameters may comprise at least one of: a power offset value, one or more PRACH preambles, a PRACH format, a PRACH numerology, a time resource allocation, and/or a frequency resource allocation. The wireless device may receive a system information block comprising a preamble initial received target power value. The wireless device may detect that a beam, of at least one first beam associated with at least one first CSI-RS of a first CSI-RS group, satisfies at least a first criterion or a plurality of criteria. The wireless device may determine a preamble power for a first preamble. The preamble power may be determined employing at least one of: the offset value; the preamble initial received target power value; a power parameter based on one or more power control commands received from a base station; and/or a path loss measurement value obtained based on a beam associated with a RACH employed for preamble transmission.

21 FIG. 2103 2101 2102 shows example procedures for BFR using a BFR preamble transmission power that may differ from an RA preamble transmission power. At step, a base stationmay determine configuration parameters for one or more wireless devices, such as a wireless device. The configuration parameters may comprise a plurality of target power values for a corresponding plurality of preambles. The plurality of target power values may comprise a first target power value for a BFR preamble and a second target power value for a RA preamble.

2101 2103 The base stationmay determine, at step, an initial target power value (e.g., an initial target received power) for an RA preamble transmission and/or for a BFR-PRACH preamble transmission, based on, e.g., one or more of at least: a preamble format, a measured uplink interference and noise level in the time/frequency resource allocated to one or more RA preambles and/or one or more BFR-PRACH preambles, power control commands, a desired received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for detecting an RA preamble and/or a BFR-PRACH preamble, a transmit power difference between SS blocks and CSI-RSs, and/or a transmit power difference between SS blocks and DM-RSs of a PBCH.

2101 2103 2103 2103 The base stationmay determine, at step, a value of an additional power offset. The base station may determine, at step, the BFR-PRACH preamble transmission power based on the determined initial target power value for an RA preamble transmission. For example, the BFR-PRACH transmission power may correspond to an RA preamble transmission power. Additionally or alternatively, the base station may determine, at step, the BFR-PRACH preamble transmission power based on the determined initial target power value for an RA preamble transmission and the additional power offset. For example, the BFR-PRACH transmission power may correspond to the RA preamble transmission power plus the additional power offset. The configuration parameters of the BFR-PRACH may comprise an additional power offset by device-specific (e.g., wireless device-specific) or cell-specific RRC signaling. The additional power offset may indicate a power offset for a BFR-PRACH transmission above an amount of power for a normal PRACH transmission. The power offset may be based on, e.g., one or more of at least: a preamble format, a preamble numerology, a measured uplink interference and noise level in the time/frequency resource allocated to one or more RA preambles and/or one or more BFR-PRACH preambles, power control commands, a desired received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for detecting an RA preamble and/or a BFR-PRACH preamble, a transmit power difference between SS blocks and CSI-RSs, or between SS blocks and DM-RSs of a PBCH.

2103 2102 The base station may determine, e.g., at step, a first type of RSs for channel quality measurement of initial access, and a second type of RSs for channel quality measurement of BFR request. For example, the wireless devicemay employ initial access based on channel quality measurement on SS blocks, and/or the wireless device may employ a BFR request transmission based on channel quality measurement on CSI-RSs.

2104 2101 2102 2104 2101 2102 2101 2101 At step, the base stationmay transmit, to the wireless device, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of an RA (e.g., RACH) procedure, e.g., via RRC signaling. The configuration parameters of the RA procedure may comprise, e.g., an initial received target power of a PRACH preamble. Additionally or alternatively, at step, the base stationmay transmit, to the wireless device, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a BFR procedure, e.g., via RRC signaling. The configuration parameters of the BFR procedure may comprise, e.g., an initial received target power of a BFR-PRACH preamble. The configuration parameters of an RA procedure and/or the configuration parameters of a BFR procedure may comprise configuration parameters of at least one of the following: CSI-RS resources, QCL parameters between CSI-RS and DM-RS of a control channel (e.g., PBCH), transmission power values for CSI-RS resources, transmission powers of DM-RSs of a control channel (e.g., PBCH), SS blocks, transmission power of SS blocks, BFR-PRACH resources, initial received target power value of a BFR-PRACH, and/or an additional BFR-PRACH power offset. The base stationmay transmit the one or more messages, comprising the configuration parameters, via RRC signaling, MAC signaling, an L1 downlink control channel, wireless-device specific signaling, and/or other signaling. The configuration parameters of the normal RA procedure and the configuration parameters of the BFR procedure may be transmitted, by the base station, in the same transmission or in separate transmissions.

22 FIG. 22 FIG. 21 FIG. 2101 2102 2104 2201 2201 2202 2203 2204 shows an example transmission, from the base stationto the wireless device, which may comprise the configuration parameters of an RA procedure and/or the configuration parameters of a BFR procedure. The transmission shown inmay be performed at stepdescribed above regarding. The transmission may comprise signalsand a plurality (e.g., N number) of subframes. The signalsmay comprise one or more synchronization signals. The one or more synchronization signals may be associated with a PBCH. The N number of subframes may comprise one or more RACH configuration parametersand/or one or more indications of additional BFR-PRACH power offset. The transmission may comprise an RRC message.

2105 2102 2102 2102 2102 21 FIG. At stepof, the wireless devicemay monitor beam link quality on RSs. The wireless devicemay select one or more RS of which to monitor channel quality. The wireless devicemay perform RSRP measurements for one or more CSI-RSs associated with a beam, and/or the wireless devicemay perform RSRP measurements for multiple sets of one or more CSI-RSs with each set being associated with one of a plurality of beams.

2106 2102 2100 2102 2105 At step, the wireless devicemay detect a beam failure. A beam failure may occur, e.g., when a quality of beam pair links, e.g., transmitting via a PDCCH, is determined to be below a threshold. The threshold may be predefined or configured, e.g., via an RRC message. The quality of beams may be based on the monitoring performed by the wireless deviceat step.

2107 2102 2104 At step, the wireless devicemay determine a transmission power for a beam failure recovery (BFR) preamble, e.g., for a BFR-PRACH. The transmission power for the BFR preamble may be based on a preamble received target power that may be included in the configuration parameters from step.

A preamble transmission power for an RA procedure (e.g., a PRACH) may be determined as follows:

CMAX,c c P(i) is a configured wireless device transmit power for subframe i of serving cell c, and PLis a downlink path loss estimation calculated by the wireless device for serving cell c. Similarly, preamble transmission for a BFR procedure (e.g., a BFR-PRACH) may be determined as follows: BFR-PRACH CMAX c CMAX P=min{P, initial received target power+PL}, where Pis a configured wireless device transmit power. 2102 c c A wireless device may determine a path loss based on a high layer filtered RSRP. The wireless device may determine the high layer filtered RSRP based on one or more measurements of CRS and a filtering configuration by higher layers. As an example, the wireless devicemay determine PLas follows:PL=referenceSignalPower−higher layer filtered RSRP, where referenceSignalPower may be provided by higher layers, and where RSRP may comprise the linear average over the power contributions of the resource elements that carry cell-specific reference signals (CRS) within a considered measurement frequency bandwidth. The considered measurement frequency bandwidth may be for the reference serving cell, and the higher layer filter configuration may determine high layer filtered RSRP for the reference serving cell. If a wireless device transmits a PRACH preamble, the wireless device may determine the PRACH preamble transmit power based on the initial target power and a power offset. The power offset may be a value (e.g., configured, or predefined) related to at least one of: a PRACH format, or a PRACH numerology. where

PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER=preambleInitialReceivedTargetPower+DELTA_PREAMBLE The value preamblelnitialReceivedTargetPower, may be provided by a high layer signaling (e.g., RRC), and may be represented as follows: dBm-120, dBm-118, dBm-116, dBm-114, preamblelnitialReceivedTargetPower ENUMERATED { dBm-104, dBm-102, dBm-100, dBm-98, dBm-96, dBm-94, dBm-92, dBm-90} dBm-112, dBm-110, dBm-108, dBm-106, The wireless device may determine PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER using, e.g., preamblelnitialReceivedTargetPower and DELTA_PREAMBLE, for an initial preamble transmission, as follows:

DELTA_PREAMBLE may comprise a parameter related to a preamble format, such as shown in Table 1. DELTA_PREAMBLE may be predefined. A preamble format may be configured by a RRC signaling.

TABLE 1 DELTA_PREAMBLE values. Preamble Format DELTA_PREAMBLE value 0 0 dB 1 0 dB 2 −3 dB 3 −3 dB 4 8 dB

2102 c A wireless device may determine a path loss based on a layer 1 RSRP value. The wireless device may determine the layer 1 RSRP value based on one or more measurements of CSI-RSs. As an example, the wireless devicemay determine PLas follows:

where referenceSignalPower may be provided by higher layers, and where layer 1 RSRP may comprise the linear average over the power contributions of the resource elements that carry CSI-RS within a considered measurement frequency bandwidth. The considered measurement frequency bandwidth may be for the reference serving cell. If a wireless device transmits a PRACH preamble, the wireless device may determine the PRACH preamble transmit power based on the initial target power and a power offset. The power offset may be a value (e.g., configured, or predefined) related to at least one of: a PRACH format, or a PRACH numerology.

2102 2112 2107 2102 The wireless devicemay determine a transmission power for a random access preamble (e.g., a PRACH) as described above, during step. At step, the wireless devicemay determine a transmission power for a BFR preamble based on a target received of a BFR-PRACH. The target received power of a BFR-PRACH transmission may be based on at least one of: the initial received target power of the RA preamble (e.g., PRACH), the power offset of the RA preamble, and/or the additional power offset of the BFR preamble (e.g., BFR-PRACH).

2107 2102 2102 2102 2102 Additionally or alternatively, at step, the wireless devicemay determine an additional power offset of a BFR-PRACH transmission based on one or more of: transmission power difference of RSs, received power difference of RSs, or power control commands. The wireless devicemay determine a transmitted or received power difference at least between a first CSI-RS resource and a second CSI-RS resource, between CSI-RSs and SS blocks, between SS blocks and DM-RSs of PBCH, or between CSI-RSs and DM-RSs of PBCH. For example, if the wireless deviceis configured with an RSRP measurement based on a CSI-RS, the wireless devicemay determine a power offset based on power difference between the CSI-RS and SS blocks.

2102 Additionally or alternatively, the wireless devicemay determine a Layer 1 RSRP based on RS resources. The RS resources may be at least one of: CSI-RS resources, SS blocks, and/or DM-RSs of PBCH.

2108 2102 2107 2101 2109 At step, the wireless devicemay transmit a BFR preamble using the BFR preamble transmission power determined from step. The BFR transmission power may be determined so as to increase the likelihood that the base stationreceives the BFR preamble at step.

2109 2101 2110 2101 2111 2101 2102 2101 2101 At step, the base stationmay receive the BFR preamble and proceed with a BFR procedure. At step, the base stationmay determine to initiate a random access procedure. At step, the base stationmay transmit, and the wireless devicemay receive, a PDCCH order to initiate the random access procedure. For example, the base stationmay transmit a downlink control information in response the BFR preamble. The base stationmay successfully finish the BFR procedure.

2112 2102 At step, the wireless devicemay determine a transmission power for the random access procedure. The wireless device may determine the transmission power as described above for an RA preamble (e.g., PRACH). For example, the preamble transmission power for an RA procedure (e.g., a PRACH) may be determined as follows:

CMAX,c c c c 2102 2102 where P(i) is a configured wireless device transmit power for subframe i of serving cell c, and PLis a downlink path loss estimation calculated by the wireless device for serving cell c. The wireless devicemay determine a path loss based on a high layer filtered RSRP. The wireless device may determine the high layer filtered RSRP based on one or more measurements of CRS and a filtering configuration by higher layers. As an example, the wireless devicemay determine PLas follows:PL=referenceSignalPower−higher layer filtered RSRP, where referenceSignalPower may be provided by higher layers, and where RSRP may comprise the linear average over the power contributions of the resource elements that carry cell-specific reference signals (CRS) within a considered measurement frequency bandwidth. The considered measurement frequency bandwidth may be for the reference serving cell, and the higher layer filter configuration may determine high layer filtered RSRP for the reference serving cell. If a wireless device transmits a PRACH preamble, the wireless device may determine the PRACH preamble transmit power based on the initial target power and a power offset. The power offset may be a value (e.g., configured, or predefined) related to at least one of: a PRACH format, or a PRACH numerology.

PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER=preambleInitialReceivedTargetPower+DELTA_PREAMBLE The value preamblelnitialReceivedTargetPower, may be provided by a high layer signaling (e.g., RRC), and may be represented as follows: dBm-120, dBm-118, dBm-116, dBm-114, preamblelnitialReceivedTargetPower ENUMERATED { dBm-104, dBm-102, dBm-100, dBm-98, dBm-96, dBm-94, dBm-92, dBm-90} dBm-112, dBm-110, dBm-108, dBm-106, The wireless device may determine PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER using, e.g., preamblelnitialReceivedTargetPower and DELTA_PREAMBLE, for an initial preamble transmission, as follows:

DELTA_PREAMBLE may comprise a parameter related to a preamble format, such as shown in Table 1 above. DELTA_PREAMBLE may be predefined. A preamble format may be configured by a RRC signaling.

2102 Additionally or alternatively, the wireless devicemay determine a Layer 1 RSRP based on RS resources. The RS resources may be at least one of: CSI-RS resources, SS blocks, and/or DM-RSs of PBCH.

2113 2102 2102 2112 2102 2101 2102 2102 At step, the wireless devicemay transmit a random access preamble procedure (e.g., PRACH) for achieving uplink synchronization. The wireless devicemay transmit the random access preamble, e.g., via an uplink signal or channel, using the random access preamble transmission power determined in step. The uplink signal or channel may comprise, e.g., a PRACH, a scheduling request, or a PUCCH transmission. In an RRC-CONNECTED state, the wireless devicemay maintain downlink and uplink synchronization with the base station. The wireless deicetransmit an initial PRACH preamble using an initial preamble transmission power. The wireless devicemay employ an open loop control with full compensation for the path loss for the preamble transmission.

2114 2101 2101 2102 1605 1609 16 FIG. At step, the base stationmay proceed with a random access procedure, e.g., after or in response to receiving the random access preamble. The base stationand the wireless devicemay perform the random access procedure described above regarding stepstoin.

21 FIG. 2105 2109 2110 2114 2110 2114 2105 2109 2105 2111 2114 2109 2105 2109 2110 2114 Any base station or wireless device may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, one or more of steps-or one or more of steps-may not be performed. As other examples, steps-may be performed before, in parallel, or after steps-; and/or stepmay be performed before stepand stepmay be performed before step(e.g., the time duration of steps-may exceed the time duration of steps-). Additional steps may also be performed.

23 FIG. 2301 shows an example of a beam failure recovery procedure that may be performed by a base station. This beam failure recovery procedure may be used to determine a BFR transmission power based on a received target power value for a BFR transmission. At step, a base station may determine resources and/or parameters for a BFR preamble (e.g., BFR-PRACH). The resources may comprise reference signals, and the parameters may comprise received target power values. For example, the resources and/or parameters may comprise one or more of the following: CSI-RS resources, QCL parameters between CSI-RS and DM-RS of a control channel, transmission power of CSI-RS resources, BFR-PRACH resources, or initial received target power of BFR-PRACH.

2302 At step, the base station may determine a BFR received target power value, e.g., an indication of an initial target received power of the BFR preamble transmission. The BFR received target power value may be based on one or more of: a preamble format, a measured uplink interference and noise level in the time/frequency resource allocated to BFR-PRACH preambles, power control commands, a desired received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), transmit power difference between SS blocks and CSI-RSs, or transmit power difference between SS blocks and DM-RSs of PBCH.

2303 At step, the base station may transmit resources, parameters, and/or the BFR received target value. For example, the base station may transmit one or more messages comprising configuration parameters that may comprise one or more of: CSI-RS resources, QCL parameters between CSI-RS and DM-RS of a control channel, transmission power of CSI-RS resources, BFR-PRACH resources, or initial received target power of a BFR-PRACH. The base station may transmit the one or more messages, e.g., via RRC signaling, via MAC signaling, via an L1 downlink control channel, via device-specific (e.g., wireless device-specific) signaling (e.g., RRC), or via cell-specific signaling (e.g., RRC).

2304 2303 2303 At step, the base station may receive a BFR preamble. The BFR preamble may be received via resources identified in a transmission from step. The BFR preamble may be transmitted using a transmission power based on the initial received target power of a BFR-PRACH from step. By receiving the BFR preamble, the base station may determine that a beam failure has occurred. After or in response to receiving the BFR preamble, the base station may proceed with a BFR procedure.

23 FIG. 2302 2304 2302 2301 2303 2302 Any base station may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A wireless device, core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, one or more of stepor stepmay not be performed. As another example, stepmay be performed before step, or stepmay be performed before step. Additional steps may also be performed.

24 FIG. 2401 shows an example of a beam failure recovery preamble procedure using offsets (e.g., power offsets) that may be performed by a base station. The power offsets may be determined by a base station and used by a wireless device to determine an amount of power for a BFR transmission above a power for an RA transmission (e.g., a non-BFR PRACH transmission). At step, a base station may determine resources and/or parameters for a random access (RA) procedure and/or for a BFR procedure. The resources may comprise reference signals.

2402 2403 At step, the base station may determine a received target power value for a random access procedure, e.g., an initial received target power of a PRACH preamble. The random access received target power value may be used by a wireless device if, e.g., the wireless device transmits an RA preamble (e.g., PRACH preamble). The first RA preamble may be for uplink synchronization. At step, the base station may determine an offset. The offset may comprise an offset value to be added to the random access received target power value for determining a transmission power of an RA preamble. The offset may be a value (e.g., configured, or predefined) related to at least one of: a PRACH format, or a PRACH numerology.

2404 At step, the base station may determine a BFR received target value. The BFR received target value may be determined by, e.g., adding the offset value to the random access received target power value, and adding an additional offset value. The additional offset value may correspond to a power value for a BFR preamble transmission power that is above an RA preamble transmission power value. By determining a BFR received target value comprising an additional offset, the base station can increase the likelihood that a BFR preamble is transmitted by a wireless device with sufficient transmission power to be received by the base station. The base station may determine a value of the additional offset based on one or more of at least: a preamble format, a preamble numerology, a measured uplink interference and noise level in the time/frequency resource allocated to BFR-PRACH or RA (e.g., PRACH) preambles, power control commands, a desired received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for detecting a BFR-PRACH preamble, a transmit power difference between SS blocks and CSI-RSs, or a transmit power difference between SS blocks and DM-RSs of a PBCH.

2405 2204 2203 22 FIG. At step, the base station may transmit, e.g., to a wireless device, the resources, parameters, offset value, and/or additional offset value. For example, the base station may transmit one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a BFR-PRACH. The configuration parameters of the BFR-PRACH may comprise an additional offset. The additional offset may indicate a power offset for a BFR-PRACH transmission power above a random access preamble (e.g., PRACH) transmission power. The base station may transmit the one or more messages, e.g., via device-specific (e.g., wireless device-specific) RRC signaling, or via cell-specific RRC signaling. A wireless device may determine a target received power of a BFR-PRACH transmission by at least one of: the initial received target power of an RA preamble (e.g., PRACH), the power offset of the RA preamble, and/or the additional power offset of the BFR-PRACH. As shown in, described above, a base station may transmit a configuration of an additional BFR-PRACH power offsetafter the base station transmits a RACH configuration.

2405 The base station may transmit, e.g., at step, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters that may comprise one or more of: CSI-RS resources, QCL parameters between CSI-RS and DM-RS of a control channel, transmission power of CSI-RS resources, BFR-PRACH resources or an additional BFR-PRACH power offset. The base station may transmit the one or more messages via RRC signaling, via MAC signaling, and/or via an L1 downlink control channel.

24 FIG. 2402 2406 2401 2404 Any base station may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A wireless device, core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, one or more of stepor stepmay not be performed. As another example, one or more of steps-may be performed in parallel. Additional steps may also be performed.

25 FIG. 2501 shows an example of a beam failure recovery preamble procedure using offsets (e.g., power offsets) that may be performed by a wireless device. The power offsets may be determined by a wireless device, and the wireless device may use the power offsets to determine an amount of power for a BFR transmission above a power for an RA transmission (e.g., a non-BFR PRACH transmission). At step, a wireless device may receive, from a base station, resources, parameters, and/or an initial target power value. For example, the wireless device may receive one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a RA (e.g., RACH) procedure via RRC signaling. The configuration parameters of the RA procedure may comprise an initial received target power of an RA preamble. The resources may comprise, and/or the parameters may indicate, RS resources for one or more RSRP measurements. The RS resources may comprise at least one of: CSI-RSs, SS blocks and/or DM-RSs of a PBCH. The parameters may comprise a first type of RSs for channel quality measurement of initial access, and a second type of RSs for channel quality measurement of a BFR request. The wireless device may employ initial access based on channel quality measurement on SS blocks, and/or the wireless device may employ a BFR request transmission based on channel quality measurement on CSI-RSs.

2502 At step, the wireless device may determine a random access preamble transmission power. For example, if a wireless device is to transmit an RA preamble (e.g., a PRACH preamble), the wireless device may determine the RA preamble transmission power based on the initial target power and a power offset. For example, the wireless device may determine an offset value (e.g., power offset) and the wireless device may determine the RA preamble transmission power by adding the offset value to the initial target power value. The offset value may be a configured or predefined value related to at least one of: a PRACH format, or a PRACH numerology.

2503 At step, the wireless device may determine a beam failure recovery preamble transmission power. The BFR preamble transmission power may be based on an additional offset value (e.g., additional power offset). For example, the wireless device may determine the BFR preamble transmission power by adding the RA preamble transmission power (e.g., a sum of the initial target power and an offset value) with an additional offset. The additional offset value for a BFR preamble (e.g., BFR-PRACH) transmission may be based on one or more of: transmission power difference of RSs, received power difference of RSs, or power control commands. For example, the wireless device may determine a transmitted or received power difference at least between a first CSI-RS resource and a second CSI-RS resource, or between CSI-RSs and SS blocks, or between SS blocks and DM-RSs of a PBCH, or between CSI-RSs and DM-RSs of a PBCH. For example, if a wireless device is configured with an RSRP measurement based on a CSI-RS, the wireless device may determine the additional power offset based on power difference between the CSI-RS and SS blocks. The wireless device may determine a target received power of a BFR preamble (e.g., BFR-PRACH) transmission by at least one of: the initial received target power of the RA preamble (e.g., PRACH), the power offset of the RA preamble, and/or the additional power offset of the BFR preamble (e.g., BFR-PRACH).

2504 2106 2505 2503 21 FIG. At step, the wireless device may determine a beam failure. The wireless device may determine the beam failure as described above regarding stepshown in. At step, the wireless device may transmit, to a base station, a BFR preamble using the beam failure recovery preamble transmission power determined at step.

25 FIG. 2502 2502 2503 2504 2502 2503 Any wireless device may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A base station, core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, stepmay not be performed. As another example, one or more of stepor stepmay be performed after step. As another example, stepand stepmay be performed in parallel. Additional steps may also be performed.

26 FIG. 2601 2601 2501 shows an example of a beam failure recovery preamble procedure by a wireless device using Layer 1 measurement and path loss. In contrast to a high layer filtered RSRP, a Layer 1 RSRP based on RS resources may be performed more quickly with less processing. At step, the wireless device may receive resources, parameters, and/or an initial target power value. Stepmay correspond to the same step as stepdescribed above. For example, the wireless device may receive one or more messages comprising configuration parameters that may comprise one or more of: SS blocks, transmission power of SS blocks, CSI-RS resources, transmission power of CSI-RS resources, DM-RSs resources of a PBCH, or transmission power of DM-RSs of a PBCH.

2602 2602 2504 At step, the wireless device may determine a beam failure. Stepmay correspond to the same step as stepdescribed above.

2603 2605 2603 2601 The wireless device may determine a BFR preamble (e.g., BFR request) transmission power by steps-. At step, the wireless device may determine a Layer 1 RSRP based on RS resources received at step. The RS resources may comprise one or more of: CSI-RS resources, SS blocks, or DM-RSs of a PBCH. The wireless device may be configured (e.g., by a base station) with a layer 1 RSRP measurement employed on CSI-RS resources, or SS blocks, or DM-RSs of a PBCH, or any combination thereof. The wireless device may determine a Layer 1 RSRP measurement, e.g., by averaging multiple measurements on multiple beams. Additionally or alternatively, the wireless device may determine a Layer 1 RSRP measurement by selecting from multiple measurements on multiple beams, e.g., based on a selection criterion. For example, a selection criterion may be that a specific beam indicated by a base station to the wireless device is selected, that an RSRP measurement with the best beam link quality of a beam (e.g., the beam having the highest RSRP value among multiple beams) is selected, and/or that an RSRP measurement with the worst beam link quality of a beam (e.g., the beam having the lowest RSRP value among multiple beams) is selected. The wireless device may determine a Layer 1 CSI-RS RSRP value for a beam, and/or determine a Layer 1 CSI-RS RSRP value for a beam set, e.g., if the wireless device is configured with multiple CSI-RS resource sets, and/or with a CSI-RS resource set with multiple CSI-RS resources. A Layer 1 CSI-RS RSRP value may comprise a linear average over the power contributions of the resource elements that carry CSI-RSs, associated with a beam, within the considered measurement frequency location, for a reference serving cell.

2604 At step, the wireless device may determine a path loss. The wireless device may determine a path loss, e.g., by using a reference signal power value obtained and a Layer 1 RSRP measured, as follows:

2605 At step, the wireless device may determine a BFR preamble transmission power based on Layer 1 measurement and/or path loss. For example, the wireless device may transmit a BFR request via a BFR-PRACH with a transmit power determined by a path loss. Additionally or alternatively, the wireless device may determine a path loss based on a Layer 1 RSRP measurement of RS resources associated with one or multiple serving beams, or one or more candidate beams. The wireless device may determine the BFR preamble (e.g., BFR-PRACH) transmission power as follows:

CMAX where Pis a configured wireless device transmit power.

2606 2606 2112 21 FIG. At step, the wireless device may transmit a BFR preamble using the BFR preamble transmission power determined at step. The wireless device may transmit the BFR preamble as described above regarding stepshown in.

26 FIG. 2603 2605 2602 2603 2604 2605 Any wireless device may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A base station, core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, one or more of steps-may be performed before step. As another example, one or more of step, step, or stepmay be performed in parallel. Additional steps may also be performed.

27 FIG. 21 FIG. 25 FIG. 26 FIG. 2701 2701 2104 2501 2601 2702 2703 2709 shows an example of procedures for random access preamble transmission and beam failure recovery preamble transmission by a wireless device. At step, the wireless device may receive configuration parameters. Stepmay correspond to the same step as step(), step(), or step() described above. At step, the wireless device may determine whether to perform an RA procedure and/or a BFR procedure. For example, if the configuration parameters comprise PRACH resource and BFR-PRACH resources, the wireless device may determine to perform both an RA procedure and a BFR procedure. If the configuration parameters do not comprise BFR-PRACH resources, the wireless device may determine to perform an RA procedure but not a BFR procedure. If the configuration parameters comprise BFR-PRACH resources but not RA resources, the wireless device may determine to perform a BFR procedure but not an RA procedure. As another example, a wireless device may monitor an RS (e.g., at step) and, at the same, overlapping, or similar time, the wireless device may receive a PDCCH order (e.g., to initiate an RA procedure at step).

2703 2703 2105 2704 2106 2705 2703 2706 2107 2503 2605 2707 2108 2505 2606 2708 2702 21 FIG. 21 FIG. 21 FIG. 25 FIG. 26 FIG. 21 FIG. 25 FIG. 26 FIG. If the wireless device determines to perform a BFR procedure, the wireless device may monitor reference signals at step. Stepmay correspond to the same step as step() described above. For example, the wireless device may monitor RSs for beam failure detection and recovery based on a first threshold and/or a second threshold. The wireless device may detect a beam failure at step, which may correspond to the same step as step() described above. For example, detecting a beam failure may be based on a channel quality of one or more first RSs (e.g., for a serving beam) being below the first threshold and/or one or more second RSs (e.g., for a candidate beam) being above the second threshold (e.g., to identify a potential candidate beam). At step, the wireless device may select a BFR preamble, e.g., after or in response to detecting the beam failure. The BFR preamble may be selected based on its association with BFR resources corresponding to RSs identified in step. At step, the wireless device may determine a BFR preamble transmission power, which may correspond to the same step as step(), step(), or step() described above. At step, the wireless device may transmit the BFR preamble, which may correspond to the same step as step(), step(), or step() described above. At step, the wireless device may determine whether to continue or end the procedures. If the wireless device determines to continue the procedures, e.g., to proceed with an RA procedure or an additional BFR procedure, the wireless device may return to step.

2702 2709 2710 2701 2710 2107 2711 2112 2502 2712 1605 2113 2708 2702 21 FIG. 21 FIG. 25 FIG. 16 FIG. 21 FIG. If the wireless device determines to perform an RA procedure, at step, the wireless device may proceed to initiate an RA procedure at step. The wireless device may receive a PDCCH order and the wireless device may initiate the RA procedure after or in response to receiving the PDCCH order. The wireless device may initiate the RA procedure, without receiving a PDCCH order, e.g., for uplink synchronization. At step, the wireless device may select an RA preamble and/or an RA resource. The wireless device may have received the RA preamble and/or the RA resource at step. Stepmay correspond to the same step as step() described above. At step, the wireless device may determine the RA preamble transmission power, which may correspond to the same step as step() or step() described above. At step, the wireless device may transmit the RA preamble, which may correspond to the same step as step() or step() described above. At step, the wireless device may determine whether to continue or end the procedures. If the wireless device determines to continue the procedures, e.g., to proceed with an additional RA procedure or a BFR procedure, the wireless device may return to step.

27 FIG. 2709 2712 2703 2707 2709 2712 2703 2707 2703 2709 2712 2707 2703 2707 2709 2712 Any wireless device may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A base station, a core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, one or more of steps-or one or more of steps-may not be performed. As other examples, steps-may be performed before, in parallel, or after steps-; and/or stepmay be performed before stepand stepmay be performed before step(e.g., the time duration of steps-may exceed the time duration of steps-). Additional steps may also be performed.

28 FIG. 21 FIG. 23 FIG. 24 FIG. 21 FIG. 2801 2801 2103 2301 2401 2802 2109 2114 2801 2803 2802 2802 shows an example of random access and beam failure recovery procedures by a base station. At step, the base station may determine and/or transmit configuration parameters. Stepmay correspond to the same step as step(), step(), or step() described above. At step, the base station may detect one or more preambles, which may correspond to the same step as stepor step(). For example, the base station may monitor PRACH resources determined in step. Each PRACH resource may be associated with a preamble. By determining a PRACH resource includes a signal, the base station may determine that a preamble associated with that PRACH resource has been detected. At step, the base station may determine whether to perform an RA procedure and/or a BFR procedure. For example, if the one or more preambles detected in stepare associated with PRACH resource and BFR-PRACH resources, the base station may determine to perform both an RA procedure and a BFR procedure. If the one or more preambles detected in stepare not associated with BFR-PRACH resources, the base station may determine to perform an RA procedure but not a BFR procedure. If the one or more preambles are associated with BFR-PRACH resources but not RA resources, the base station may determine to perform a BFR procedure but not an RA procedure.

2804 2109 2802 2801 2805 2806 2805 2807 2803 21 FIG. If the base station determines to perform a BFR procedure, the base station may determine a beam failure at step, which may correspond to the same step as step() described above. For example, determining a beam failure may comprise determining that a BFR-PRACH preamble received in stepwas associated with a candidate beam, and/or determining that a BFR-PRACH preamble was received using resources and/or parameters that are not associated with a serving beam via which the base station transmitted the configuration parameters in step. At step, the base station may determine a candidate beam. The candidate beam may be determined based on one or more measurements of RSs. For example, the base station may determine a candidate beam associated with a highest signal quality measurement. At step, the base station may transmit a signal via a candidate beam determined at step. For example, the base station may transmit a control signal (e.g., PDCCH DCI) using the candidate beam, and/or the base station may transmit a data packet using the candidate beam. At step, the base station may determine whether to continue or end the procedures. If the base station determines to continue the procedures, e.g., to proceed with an RA procedure or an additional BFR procedure, the base station may return to step.

2803 2808 2808 1606 1607 1609 2807 2803 16 FIG. 16 FIG. If the base station determines to perform an RA procedure, at step, the base station may proceed with an RA procedure by transmitting a random access response (RAR) at step. Stepmay correspond to the same step as step() described above. The base station may proceed with remaining steps for an RA procedure that may correspond to steps-() described above. At step, the base station may determine whether to continue or end the procedures. If the base station determines to continue the procedures, e.g., to proceed with an additional RA procedure or a BFR procedure, the wireless device may return to step.

28 FIG. 2808 2804 2806 2808 2804 2806 Any base station may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps of. A wireless device, a core network device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Some or all of these steps may be performed, and the order of these steps may be adjusted. For example, stepor one or more of steps-may not be performed. As another example, stepmay be performed before, in parallel, or after steps-. Additional steps may also be performed.

A base station may perform any combination of one or more of the above steps. A wireless device, or any other device, may perform any combination of a step, or a complementary step, of one or more of the above steps. Any base station described herein may be a current base station, a serving base station, a source base station, a target base station, or any other base station.

29 FIG. 401 1501 1621 1701 1901 2001 2006 2101 406 1620 1902 2002 2102 2900 2901 2903 2904 2905 2900 2901 2900 2902 2903 2904 2905 2907 2909 2911 2912 2913 2900 2906 2907 2908 2900 2909 2909 2900 2910 2909 2910 2900 2911 2900 shows general hardware elements that may be used to implement any of the various computing devices discussed herein, including, e.g., the base station, the base station, the base station, the base station, the base station, the first base station, the second base station, the base station, the wireless device, the wireless device, the wireless device, the wireless device, the wireless device, or any other base station, wireless device, or computing device. The computing devicemay include one or more processors, which may execute instructions stored in the random access memory (RAM), the removable media(such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive, compact disk (CD) or digital versatile disk (DVD), or floppy disk drive), or any other desired storage medium. Instructions may also be stored in an attached (or internal) hard drive. The computing devicemay also include a security processor (not shown), which may execute instructions of one or more computer programs to monitor the processes executing on the processorand any process that requests access to any hardware and/or software components of the computing device(e.g., ROM, RAM, the removable media, the hard drive, the device controller, a network interface, a GPS, a Bluetooth interface, a WiFi interface, etc.). The computing devicemay include one or more output devices, such as the display(e.g., a screen, a display device, a monitor, a television, etc.), and may include one or more output device controllers, such as a video processor. There may also be one or more user input devices, such as a remote control, keyboard, mouse, touch screen, microphone, etc. The computing devicemay also include one or more network interfaces, such as a network interface, which may be a wired interface, a wireless interface, or a combination of the two. The network interfacemay provide an interface for the computing deviceto communicate with a network(e.g., a RAN, or any other network). The network interfacemay include a modem (e.g., a cable modem), and the external networkmay include communication links, an external network, an in-home network, a provider's wireless, coaxial, fiber, or hybrid fiber/coaxial distribution system (e.g., a DOCSIS network), or any other desired network. Additionally, the computing devicemay include a location-detecting device, such as a global positioning system (GPS) microprocessor, which may be configured to receive and process global positioning signals and determine, with possible assistance from an external server and antenna, a geographic position of the computing device.

29 FIG. 29 FIG. 2900 2901 2902 2906 The example inis a hardware configuration, although the components shown may be implemented as software as well. Modifications may be made to add, remove, combine, divide, etc. components of the computing deviceas desired. Additionally, the components may be implemented using basic computing devices and components, and the same components (e.g., processor, ROM storage, display, etc.) may be used to implement any of the other computing devices and components described herein. For example, the various components described herein may be implemented using computing devices having components such as a processor executing computer-executable instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, as shown in. Some or all of the entities described herein may be software based, and may co-exist in a common physical platform (e.g., a requesting entity may be a separate software process and program from a dependent entity, both of which may be executed as software on a common computing device).

One or more features of the disclosure may be implemented in a computer-usable data and/or computer-executable instructions, such as in one or more program modules, executed by one or more computers or other devices. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types when executed by a processor in a computer or other data processing device. The computer executable instructions may be stored on one or more computer readable media such as a hard disk, optical disk, removable storage media, solid state memory, RAM, etc. The functionality of the program modules may be combined or distributed as desired. The functionality may be implemented in whole or in part in firmware or hardware equivalents such as integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and the like. Particular data structures may be used to more effectively implement one or more features of the disclosure, and such data structures are contemplated within the scope of computer executable instructions and computer-usable data described herein.

Many of the elements in examples may be implemented as modules. A module may be an isolatable element that performs a defined function and has a defined interface to other elements. The modules may be implemented in hardware, software in combination with hardware, firmware, wetware (i.e., hardware with a biological element) or a combination thereof, all of which may be behaviorally equivalent. For example, modules may be implemented as a software routine written in a computer language configured to be executed by a hardware machine (such as C, C++, Fortran, Java, Basic, Matlab or the like) or a modeling/simulation program such as Simulink, Stateflow, GNU Octave, or LabVIEWMathScript. Additionally or alternatively, it may be possible to implement modules using physical hardware that incorporates discrete or programmable analog, digital and/or quantum hardware. Examples of programmable hardware may comprise: computers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs); field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs). Computers, microcontrollers, and microprocessors may be programmed using languages such as assembly, C, C++ or the like. FPGAs, ASICs, and CPLDs may be programmed using hardware description languages (HDL), such as VHSIC hardware description language (VHDL) or Verilog, which may configure connections between internal hardware modules with lesser functionality on a programmable device. The above mentioned technologies may be used in combination to provide the result of a functional module.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods may perform operations of multi-carrier communications described herein. Additionally or alternatively, a non-transitory tangible computer readable media may comprise instructions executable by one or more processors configured to cause operations of multi-carrier communications described herein. An article of manufacture may comprise a non-transitory tangible computer readable machine-accessible medium having instructions encoded thereon for enabling programmable hardware to cause a device (e.g., a wireless device, wireless communicator, a UE, a base station, and the like) to enable operation of multi-carrier communications described herein. The device, or one or more devices such as in a system, may include one or more processors, memory, interfaces, and/or the like. Other examples may comprise communication networks comprising devices such as base stations, wireless devices or user equipment (UE), servers, switches, antennas, and/or the like. Any device (e.g., a wireless device, a base station, or any other device) or combination of devices may be used to perform any combination of one or more of steps described herein, including, e.g., any complementary step or steps of one or more of the above steps.

Although examples are described above, features and/or steps of those examples may be combined, divided, omitted, rearranged, revised, and/or augmented in any desired manner. Various alterations, modifications, and improvements will readily occur to those skilled in the art. Such alterations, modifications, and improvements are intended to be part of this description, though not expressly stated herein, and are intended to be within the spirit and scope of the disclosure. Accordingly, the foregoing description is by way of example only, and is not limiting.